Avishek Biswas, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:59:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Avishek Biswas, Author at Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com 32 32 How to Fine-Tune Small Language Models to Think with Reinforcement Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-finetune-small-language-models-to-think-with-reinforcement-learning/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:59:20 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=606531 A visual tour and from-scratch guide to train GRPO reasoning models in PyTorch

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