rl-research/DR-Tulu-8B

[!NOTE] For full information, go check out the Dr Tulu paper here. We have recently (23/02/2026) updated the model, please check branches for older versions of the model. Our initial release was step_1000, our second release was step_1900. Our final release is step_4000 (main and branch). Some checkpoint steps are missing, apologies, we simply do not have those checkpoints.

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DR Tulu-8B

This is the RL checkpoint of DR Tulu, an open deep research agent trained on top of rl-research/DR-Tulu-SFT-8B.

This model has undergone RL training on this dataset. For more details on DR Tulu please read our [paper](https://allenai.org/papers/drtulu)!

Inference and Usage

This model has been trained for tool-use using the dr-agent-lib framework. As such, running it out of the box with HuggingFace or vLLM will not work well!

See our github for more details on installation and how to run our model. Or check out our demo!

Evaluation Results

We provide evaluation instructions in our github.

For more baselines, explanations of this table, and analysis of results, check out the Dr Tulu paper!

Intended uses & limitations

This model is licensed under Apache 2.0. It is intended for research and educational use in accordance with Ai2's Responsible Use Guidelines.

Training

The script used to train this model can be found here.

For hyperparameter details, check out the Dr Tulu paper.

Links

• —📝 DR Tulu Paper
• —⚙️ DR Tulu demo
• —💻 DR Tulu code
• —🤖 DR Tulu collection

Citation

@article{shao2025dr,
  title={DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Research},
  author={Shao, Rulin and Asai, Akari and Shen, Shannon Zejiang and Ivison, Hamish and Kishore, Varsha and Zhuo, Jingming and Zhao, Xinran and Park, Molly and Finlayson, Samuel G and Sontag, David and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.19399},
  year={2025}
}