# Environments
This directory contains various environments for training and evaluating language models on different tasks. Each environment implements a specific task with its own input format, reward function, and evaluation metrics.
## Available Environments
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### MCQA Thinking Environment (`mcqa_thinking_env.py`)
Multiple Choice Question Answering environment that requires models to think through problems systematically.
**Input Format:**
- Questions from the MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding) dataset
- Each item contains:
- `prompt`: The question text
- `answer`: Index of correct answer
- `ground_truth`: Letter (A, B, C, D) of correct answer
- `options`: List of possible answers
**System Prompt:**
```
You are a deep thinking AI, you may use extremely long chains of thought to deeply consider the problem and deliberate with yourself via systematic reasoning processes to help come to a correct solution prior to answering. You should enclose your thoughts and internal monologue inside tags, and then provide your solution or response to the problem.
```
**Reward Function:**
- Score of 1.0 if the model's answer matches the ground truth letter
- Score of 0.0 if incorrect or invalid response (multiple think tags, malformed thinking sections)
- Length penalty applied if all responses are correct:
- No penalty for responses under 50% of max token length
- Linear penalty scaling from 1.0 down to 0.0 for responses between 50% and 100% of max length
- Returns None if all scores are identical (no learning signal)
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### GSM8K Environment (`gsm8k_server.py`)
Mathematical reasoning environment using the GSM8K dataset.
**Input Format:**
- Questions from GSM8K dataset
- Each item contains:
- `question`: The math problem
- `answer`: The numerical answer
**System Prompt:**
```
You are a deep thinking AI, you may use extremely long chains of thought to deeply consider the problem and deliberate with yourself via systematic reasoning processes to help come to a correct solution prior to answering. You should enclose your thoughts and internal monologue inside tags, and then provide your solution or response to the problem.
You are allocated a maximum of 2048 tokens, please strive to use less.
You will then provide your answer like this: \boxed{your answer here}
It is important that you provide your answer in the correct format.
If you do not, you will not receive credit for your answer.
So please end your answer with \boxed{your answer here}
```
**Reward Function:**
- Score of 1.0 if the model's answer matches the ground truth (using LaTeX verification)
- Score of 0.0 if incorrect or if ground truth is not parseable
- Length penalty applied if all responses are correct:
- No penalty for responses under 50% of max token length
- Linear penalty scaling from 1.0 down to 0.0 for responses between 50% and 100% of max length
- Returns None if all scores are identical (no learning signal)
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### Tool Calling Environment (`tool_calling_server.py`)
Environment for training models to make function calls in a structured format.
**Input Format:**
- Conversations from ShareGPT-Hermes function call dataset
- Each item contains:
- `conversations`: List of messages with roles (system, human, gpt)
- Expected tool calls in JSON format
**System Prompt:**
```
You are a deep thinking AI, you may use extremely long chains of thought to deeply consider the problem and deliberate with yourself via systematic reasoning processes to help come to a correct solution prior to answering. You should enclose your thoughts and internal monologue inside tags, and then provide your solution or response to the problem.
```
**Reward Function:**
- Score of 1.0 if all expected tool calls are present and match exactly (including nested JSON fields)
- Score of 0.0 if any tool calls are missing, incorrect, or malformed
- Length penalty applied if all responses are correct:
- No penalty for responses under 50% of max token length
- Linear penalty scaling from 1.0 down to 0.0 for responses between 50% and 100% of max length
- Returns None if all scores are identical (no learning signal)
## Common Features
All environments share these common features:
1. **Training/Test Split:**
- 98% training, 2% test split
- Random shuffling with fixed seed (42)
2. **Metrics Tracking:**
- Percent correct buffer
- Completion lengths
- Wandb integration for visualization
- Rollout tracking
3. **Token Management:**
- Maximum token length limits
- Token length statistics tracking
- Length penalty for excessive responses
4. **Evaluation:**
- Separate evaluation on test set
- Comprehensive metrics logging
- Support for multiple model completions per prompt
## Usage
Each environment can be initialized with:
- `config`: BaseEnvConfig object
- `server_configs`: List of OpenAI API configurations
- `slurm`: Boolean for distributed training
- `testing`: Boolean for testing mode
The environments follow a common interface with methods for:
- `setup()`: Loading and preparing datasets
- `get_next_item()`: Retrieving next training item
- `collect_trajectories()`: Generating model responses
- `score()`: Computing rewards
- `evaluate()`: Running evaluation on test set
- `wandb_log()`: Logging metrics to Weights & Biases