XFLOPS Blog

Latest news, updates, and insights from the XFLOPS team and community.

Flame Reinforcement Learning AI

Training a Search-R1 Agent with Flame

By Klaus Ma

How Flame simplifies Search-R1 training with Python services, warm GPU executors, elastic rollouts, gang-scheduled trainers, and incremental weight transfer, demonstrated in a 100-step run.

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flame flamepy search-r1 grpo vllm object-cache gang-scheduling
Flame Release

Flame v0.6: A Distributed Engine for Elastic Workloads

By Klaus Ma

Flame v0.6 adds Runner, object cache, and install tooling for elastic jobs such as agents, RL, and crawlers. Batch jobs stay with Volcano; workflow jobs are not covered yet.

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flame v0.6 elastic volcano session runner object-cache
Flame Rust AI

Deploy a Candle Application with Flame

By Klaus Ma

A walkthrough of the Candle Based Rust example in Flame, showing that the main code change is wrapping local inference in a Flame service macro, while flmctl deploy handles packaging and registration.

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flame flame-rs flmctl candle rust deployment llm text-generation
Flame RL

TorchRL DQN with Flame App and Sharded Replay

By Klaus Ma

A technical blog on the TorchRL DQN example in Flame, covering distributed collectors, Flame-backed TorchRL replay storage, sharded sampling, and an Apple M4 Podman test run.

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flame flamepy app torchrl dqn replay-buffer reinforcement-learning distributed-training
Flame RL

Distributed Replay Buffer with Flame App

By Klaus Ma

A technical blog on Flame's replay-buffer example, covering patch_object delta updates, parallel sampling, and the handler-plus-data programming model.

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flame flamepy app replay-buffer reinforcement-learning patch-object distributed-training