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# Punchline VR-CLI Environment
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This fork contains an Atropos environment designed to train a large language model to generate humorous punchlines for jokes. The environment utilizes a Reinforcement Learning (RL) technique called Verifiable Rewards via Completion Likelihood Improvement (VR-CLI), taken from the paper "Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation" (Gurung & Lapata, 2025) [https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22828v1#S8](https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22828v1#S8).
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This fork contains an Atropos environment designed to train a large language model to generate humorous punchlines for jokes. The environment utilizes a Reinforcement Learning (RL) technique called Verifiable Rewards via Completion Likelihood Improvement (VR-CLI), taken from the paper "Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation" (Gurung & Lapata, 2025) [https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22828v1](https://arxiv.org/html/2503.22828v1).
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## Environment Design and Motivation
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The core idea is to teach a model not just to produce a punchline, but to first generate a "reasoning" or "thought process" that leads to a good punchline. The quality of this reasoning is then "verified" by measuring how much it improves the likelihood (reduces the perplexity) of the *actual* punchline from the dataset, as assessed by a separate, fixed reference model. This greatly reduces overfitting, as the model does not have access to the ground-truth answer.
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## Example
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Here's an example of how the model generates a punchline with reasoning:
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```
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Question: What do you call a herd of cows masturbating?
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<think>
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Okay, the user is asking, "What do you call a herd of cows masturbating?" Hmm, that's a play on words. Let me think. The key here is the word "masturbating" and the animal "cows." The answer needs to be a pun or a play on words.
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First, I need to connect "herd" with "masturbating." A herd of cows is a group, so maybe something related to a group. "Masturbating" is a term that's not typically used for animals, but maybe there's a word that combines the two.........
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</think>
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Beef strokin off!
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```
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### Key Components:
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* **Dataset:** The environment uses the `"SocialGrep/one-million-reddit-jokes"` dataset, filtering for jokes with a question-answer format (setup and punchline) and a minimum number of upvotes.
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* **Task:** Given the setup of a joke (the "question"), the model is prompted to generate a thinking process (`<think>...</think>`) followed by the punchline.
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* **Task:** Given the setup of a joke (the "question"), the model is prompted to generate a thinking process `<think>...</think>` followed by the punchline.
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* **Reward (VR-CLI):**
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1. A base perplexity of the "golden" punchline is calculated given only the joke's setup, using a reference LLM (`Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base`).
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1. A base perplexity of the "golden" punchline is calculated given only the joke's setup, using a reference LLM `Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base`.
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2. A new perplexity of the golden punchline is calculated, this time conditioned on both the joke's setup AND the model-generated reasoning.
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3. The reward is proportional to the improvement in perplexity ( `(base_perplexity - plus_perplexity) / base_perplexity`). A positive reward indicates the reasoning was helpful.
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3. The reward is proportional to the improvement in perplexity `(base_perplexity - plus_perplexity) / base_perplexity`. A positive reward indicates the reasoning was helpful.
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* **Models:**
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* The environment is configured to use `Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B` for generating trajectories.
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* A reference model (`Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base`) is used locally to calculate the VR-CLI reward.
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* A reference model `Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base` is used locally to calculate the VR-CLI reward.
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The motivation is to guide the LLM towards generating more creative and contextually relevant punchlines by explicitly rewarding the intermediate reasoning steps that make a punchline "work." Typical fine-tuning fails to do this, as it makes the models memorize the jokes rather than gain an understanding of what makes them funny.
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You will need to have vLLM serving the model on port 9001 for this to work.
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[Weights & Biases link](https://wandb.ai/jaboggs-nous-hackathon-nc-state-university/uncategorized/runs/c24sz5t5)
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[Weights & Biases link](https://wandb.ai/jaboggs-nous-hackathon-nc-state-university/uncategorized/runs/c24sz5t5)
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#### Output
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Zip placeholder
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