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work instead: the brand on posts and pages, the research byline on papers, and
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already used elsewhere — nothing new was coined.

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whoever the cited paper names.

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Co-authored-by: Hanzo Dev <[email protected]>
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\title{Gym: Democratizing AI Model Training Through\\Comprehensive Open-Source Infrastructure}
\author{
Antje Worring, Zoo Labs Foundation Research\thanks{[email protected]}\\
\textit{Hanzo Industries \quad Lux Industries \quad Zoo Labs Foundation}\\
\texttt{[email protected]}
}
\date{September 2025}
\begin{document}
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\begin{abstract}
The democratization of artificial intelligence remains hindered by the substantial computational costs and technical complexity of model training. We present \textbf{Gym}, an open-source AI model training platform designed to lower these barriers through comprehensive infrastructure supporting 100+ model architectures, efficient training algorithms, and accessible interfaces. Originally forked from LLaMA Factory in May 2023, Gym has evolved over 2.5 years into a production-ready system incorporating state-of-the-art methods including full fine-tuning, Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA), Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), and recently Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). Our Training-Free GRPO implementation achieves comparable performance to gradient-based methods at 99.8\% cost reduction (\$18 vs \$10,000+ for domain adaptation), demonstrating that democratization need not compromise capability. Gym has enabled researchers worldwide to fine-tune models ranging from 0.5B to 72B parameters on consumer hardware, facilitated educational initiatives across 50+ institutions, and powered production deployments serving millions of users. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit project, Gym embodies the principle that advanced AI should be accessible to all, not just well-resourced laboratories. Code, documentation, and pre-trained models are available at \url{https://github.com/zooai/gym}.
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\input{sections/01-introduction}
\input{sections/02-background-and-motivation}
\input{sections/03-architecture-overview}
\input{sections/04-training-methods}
\input{sections/05-multi-modal-training}
\input{sections/06-performance-optimizations}
\input{sections/07-distributed-training}
\input{sections/08-educational-impact}
\input{sections/09-integration-with-zoo-ecosystem}
\input{sections/10-evaluation-and-benchmarks}
\input{sections/11-comparison-with-related-work}
\input{sections/12-future-work}
\input{sections/13-conclusion}
\input{sections/99-acknowledgments}
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