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MiMo-V2.6: Scaling Reinforcement Learning Towards Self-Improvement

Xiao-Zhen Qiao Zi-Yue Hua Zi-Rui Ou Zi-Hao Yue Zi-Han Jiang Zhuo Huang Zhi-Yang Chen Zhi-Xian Zheng Zhi-Peng Xu Zhengrui Ma Yuyang Hu Yu-Hang Dong Yuechen Zhang Yudong Wang Yuan-Xin Liu Yi-Xin Yang Yi-Shuo Cai Yi-Kai Zhao Yi-Han Yan Yi-Fan Zhang Yifan Song Xi-Yu Wei Xing Zhang Xin Zhang Xiao-Qian Liu Xiao-Dong Ji Xiang-Wei Deng Xue Guo Wenhan Ma Wei-Min Xiong Wei-Kun Wang Wei-Ji Zhuang Shuo Liu Shuhuai Ren Shu-Hao Gu Shi-Mao Chen Shi-Jie Cao Shi-Liang Yu Shi-Cheng Li Sheng-Jie Zhou Shao-Lei Zhang Rang Li Qi-Ying Wang Qingkai Fang Qian Chen Minzheng Wang Li-Wen Wang Lin-Li Yao Ling-Hao Zhang Li Cheng Liang Zhao Lei Li Jin-Hao Dong Jin-Yu Xiang Jian-Yu Wei Jiang-Shan Duo Hua-Qiu Liu Hua Fan Hong-Yi Guan Hong-Shen Xu Hao Tian Han-Yu Li Hai-Lin Zhang Gang Wang Fu-Li Luo Feng Wei Dong Zhang Dawei Zhu Chiheng Lou Chen-Hong He Cheng-Hao He Cheng-Hua Liu Bo-Wen Ye Bo-Wen Shen Bo-Shen Xu Bo Yang Bing Xia Bang-Jun Xiao Bai-Xuan Xu Zhou-Xiang Mao Zhi-Yang Zhang Zhi-Xiang Xu Zhen-Ru Lin Zheng-Ju Tang Zhao-Jun Huang Yu-Zhe Weng Yu-Xing Xiang Yu-Xiao Li Yu-Heng Yang Yu-Hang Wang Yuchen Liu Yu Tian Yuan-Liang Dong Yu Cheng Yong He Yong-Shun Liang Yong Wang Yi-Yan Wang Yi-Tian Gong Yi-Jie Zhang Yan Xin Xun Zhang Xing-Jian Zhao Wen-Yu Yang Wen-Shan Huang Wen-Hao Li Ting Huang Tian-Yu Yu Tian-Yang Lu Tao Yang Si-Nan Du Shu-Tong Tian Shu-Lin Du Sheng-Fan Wang Shan Fang Qi-Hao Zhang Qi-Bin Yang Qian Yu Qian Tu Peng Xie Pei-Pei Wang Pei-Dian Li Min Guo Ming-Chen Shao Lu Gao Li-Jie Wang Liang Shi Kai-Qi Chen Kai Liu Kai-Fei Wang Kai Yang Jin-Long Xue Jie-Chen Zhang Jia-Xuan Liu Hong-Xu An Hao Peng Han Lu Guo-Nan Wang Fei Yang Fan Cao Fang-Yu Liu Fan Cui Cong Wang Chun Chen Chen-Xu Bai Chen Zhu Cheng-Hua Wang Bo-Yi Zeng
Oct 2026 · 6 citations · 46 references
Computer Science

Abstract

Reinforcement learning (RL) is the central training paradigm for advancing large foundation models towards self-improvement. This report introduces the MiMo-V2.6 series, an omni-modal family that pushes the frontier of model intelligence by scaling RL compute. Prior to RL, we conduct mid-training on a broad multimodal corpus to provide ample exploration space, and build a solid infrastructure on the pretrained hybrid-SWA architecture to support subsequent scale-up. We scale RL compute along three dimensions: (1) larger batches and higher throughput, with an asynchronous training that consumes 1,568 samples and 2.7-3.7B tokens per step at context lengths of up to 1M; (2) more diverse and complex environments, spanning code, general, visual, and cyber domains under a mixture of agent harnesses; and (3) more grader compute, via groupwise agentic grading that yields more accurate reward signals for long-horizon tasks and steers the model towards shorter, more token-efficient solutions. To keep training stable at scale, we freeze the MoE router and establish a multi-layer defense against reward hacking. We further build infrastructure for mixed-task agentic RL, including a unified trajectory representation, high-concurrency multi-framework rollout, decoupled control and data planes, and training-inference consistency. We open-source the training dynamics, RL environments, and RL framework to facilitate reproduction and further research on scaled RL and model self-improvement.

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