Model details
- Base model:
Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507
- Architecture:
Qwen3ForCausalLM (36 layers, hidden 2560, 32 heads, GQA 8 KV heads)
- Max position embeddings: 262,144 (RoPE θ = 5,000,000)
- Precision:
bfloat16
- Total params: ~4B
- Training framework: LLaMA-Factory
Training recipe
Table with columns: Item, Value| Item | Value |
|---|
| Stage | SFT (cold-start before RL) |
| Base model | Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 |
| Dataset | simplex-ai-inc/LiteResearcher-Data (~68.2k SFT trajectories) |
| Max sequence length | 64K (cutoff_len=65536) |
| Global batch size | 128 (per-device bs 2 × grad-accum 8 × 8 GPUs) |
| Epochs | 1 |
| Optimizer steps | 533 |
| Learning rate |
The SFT trajectories teach the model the ReAct think → search → visit → answer
loop and the strict <answer>...</answer> output contract used by the RL environment.
Because the base is the Thinking-2507 variant, the model preserves long
chain-of-thought behavior inside <think>...</think> blocks, which is what the
downstream RL curriculum builds on.
How to use
As the initial policy for RL (recommended use)
# In the LiteResearcher training scripts (Training/ folder of the repo)export MODEL_PATH=$(hf download simplex-ai-inc/LiteResearcher-4B-SFT \ --local-dir ./literesearcher_sft)
Then follow the Stage-1 / Stage-2 RL instructions in the
LiteResearcher repository.
Stand-alone inference
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizerimport torch model_id = "simplex-ai-inc/LiteResearcher-4B-SFT"tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained( model_id, torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16, device_map="auto")
The model expects the same ReAct system prompt and tool schema used by
LiteResearcher (see Inference/ in the repo).
Citation
If you use this checkpoint in academic work, please cite the LiteResearcher
project — see the GitHub README for the BibTeX entry.
License
Apache-2.0, inheriting from the Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 base model.