9 papers
Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong +213
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency. We focus on what matters most wh…
Step-Audio 2 Technical Report
Boyong Wu, Chao Yan, Chen Hu +106
This paper presents Step-Audio 2, an end-to-end multi-modal large language model designed for industry-strength audio understanding and speech conversation. By integrating a latent…
Step-3 is Large yet Affordable: Model-system Co-design for Cost-effective Decoding
StepFun, :, Bin Wang +195
Large language models (LLMs) face low hardware efficiency during decoding, especially for long-context reasoning tasks. This paper introduces Step-3, a 321B-parameter VLM with hard…
Step-Audio-AQAA: a Fully End-to-End Expressive Large Audio Language Model
Ailin Huang, Bingxin Li, Bruce Wang +73
Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have significantly advanced intelligent human-computer interaction, yet their reliance on text-based outputs limits their ability to generate na…
StreamRL: Scalable, Heterogeneous, and Elastic RL for LLMs with Disaggregated Stream Generation
Yinmin Zhong, Zili Zhang, Xiaoniu Song +11
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the core post-training technique for large language models (LLMs). RL for LLMs involves two stages: generation and training. The LLM first ge…
Optimizing RLHF Training for Large Language Models with Stage Fusion
Yinmin Zhong, Zili Zhang, Bingyang Wu +8
We present RLHFuse, an efficient training system with stage fusion for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Due to the intrinsic nature of RLHF training, i.e., the da…