Experiments with Reinforcement Learning Fine‑Tuning of a 0.5B Qwen Model on the KK Dataset
The author reports a series of reinforcement‑learning‑based fine‑tuning experiments on a 0.5‑billion‑parameter Qwen‑0.5VB instruct model using the KK dataset, detailing reward design adjustments, curriculum‑style data scaling, observed convergence issues, and hypotheses about why small models fail to develop long reasoning chains.