decor-qwen3-4b-dse

DecoR: Qwen3-4B Fine-tuned on DSE-Cleaned LIMO

This model is Qwen3-4B fine-tuned on the DSE-cleaned (Dead Step Elimination) version of the LIMO dataset.

DSE removes structurally dead reasoning steps — steps that are unreachable from the conclusion via dependency DAG analysis. This produces cleaner training data that leads to more efficient reasoning.

Key Results

• +3.2% on MATH-500 vs Original LIMO SFT
• 28% faster training (6h26m vs 8h56m)
• 11.5% lower training loss (0.240 vs 0.271)
• 18.5% shorter output traces (more efficient reasoning)

Training Details

• Base model: Qwen/Qwen3-4B
• Training data: LIMO-DSE (817 samples, DSE-cleaned)
• Framework: LLaMA-Factory + DeepSpeed ZeRO-2
• Hardware: 2× NVIDIA A100 80GB (CSD3 HPC)
• Hyperparameters:
  • Learning rate: 5e-6 (cosine schedule, 10% warmup)
  • Batch size: 8 (effective)
  • Epochs: 15
  • Max sequence length: 16384
  • Full fine-tuning (no LoRA)

Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Ciaranshu/decor-qwen3-4b-dse")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Ciaranshu/decor-qwen3-4b-dse")

Citation

@article{decor2026,
  title={The Structural Reward Gap: How Outcome-Based RL Creates Superstitious Reasoning},
  author={Shu, Chang},
  year={2026}
}

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.52.4
• Pytorch 2.5.1+cu124
• Datasets 3.6.0
• Tokenizers 0.21.1