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A Deep Dive into Scaling RL for Code Generation with Synthetic Data and Curricula

2026-03-25 · Cansu Sancaktar, David Zhang, Gabriel Synnaeve, Taco Cohen arxiv

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving large language models beyond supervised fine-tuning, yet sustaining performance gains at scale remains an open challenge, as data diversity and structure, rather than volume alone, become the limiting factor. We address this by introducing a scalable multi-turn synthetic data generation pipeline in which a teacher model iteratively refines problems based on in-context student performance summaries, producing structured difficulty progressions without any teacher fine-tuning. Compared to single-turn generation, this multi-turn approach substantially improves the yield of valid synthetic problems and naturally produces stepping stones, i.e. easier and harder variants of the same core task, that support curriculum-based training. We systematically study how task difficulty, curriculum scheduling, and environment diversity interact during RL training across the Llama3.1-8B Instruct and Qwen3-8B Base model families, with additional scaling experiments on Qwen2.5-32B. Our results show that synthetic augmentation consistently improves in-domain code and in most cases out-of-domain math performance, and we provide empirical insights into how curriculum design and data diversity jointly shape RL training dynamics.

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