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VeRL-Omni

Easy, fast, and stable RL training for diffusion and omni-modality models

VeRL-Omni is a general RL training framework focused on multimodal generative models, built on top of verl.

It originated from the multi-modal generation RL effort in verl, and now has a dedicated home so it can evolve in a more focused way.

News 🔥

  • [2026-07] Team-proposed algorithm FlowGRPO with DiNa-LRM is available. Training skips VAE decoding by scoring clean diffusion latents directly for faster and more resource-efficient model alignment.
  • [2026-07] VeRL-Omni is presented in QingKe AI, vLLM community, and verl x Ascend Beijing meetup. Slides are shared.
  • [2026-06] Qwen3-Omni GSPO Trainer is available! Flow-DPPO is integrated. vLLM-Omni rollout backend is upgraded to v0.22 for higher throughput, with default actor attn backend switched to FA3.
  • [2026-06] DiffusionNFT and Diffusion DPO are integrated with verified recipes on Qwen-Image/SD3.5. Wan2.2 is now supported for video generation tasks.

Why VeRL-Omni

Multimodal generative RL training differs from text-only LLM RL not only in model structure, but also in I/O patterns, compute characteristics, and runtime bottlenecks. As this space grows, it deserves a dedicated training repository that can evolve quickly around its own constraints.

Scope

VeRL-Omni targets RL post-training for three families of generative models:

  1. Diffusion generative models for image, video, and audio — e.g., Qwen-Image, Wan2.2.
  2. Unified multimodal understanding + generation models — e.g., BAGEL, HunyuanImage-3.0.
  3. Omni-modality models that jointly handle text, image, audio, and video — e.g., Qwen3-Omni.

What we focus on

  • Fast multi-modal rollout: Adopt vLLM-Omni backend and accelerate generation via rollout routing, rollout batching, embed caching optimizations, and more.
  • Flexible & async multi-reward serving: Support multi-reward serving (HPSv3, GenRM-OCR, UnifiedReward, etc.), HTTP scorer, and asynchronous reward computation to overlap the rollout phase.
  • Modular training backends: Selectable VeOmni and FSDP2 backends with combinable parallelism (USP/TP/DP) for distributed training.
  • Stability: Boost stability and speed in diffusion RL pipelines via rollout correction to skip logP recomputation, and achieve reproducible E2E training with deterministic RL. Reward, rollout and actor update are composable and extensible, via Hydra configs.
  • Efficient and convergent training recipes: On our reference Qwen-Image FlowGRPO setup, VeRL-Omni achieves ~25% higher end-to-end throughput than the diffusers-based flow_grpo implementation, driven by vLLM-Omni rollout, FSDP2 trainer, overlapped reward computation (asynchronous), etc.

Getting Started 🚀

Visit our documentation to learn more.

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Example: Optimizing Qwen-Image Text Rendering Accuracy with FlowGRPO (recipe  |  wandb)

Model and Algorithm Support 🎨

Model Category Modality Algorithm Status
Qwen-Image & Qwen-Image-Edit Diffusion generator Text/Image → Image FlowGRPO (+ CPS/SDE)
Flow-DPPO
MixGRPO
GRPO-Guard
DiffusionNFT
DPO
Wan2.2 Diffusion generator Text → Video DanceGRPO
LTX2.3 Diffusion generator Text → Video + Audio FlowGRPO WIP
BAGEL Unified understand + gen Text + Image FlowGRPO
SD3.5 Diffusion generator Text → Image DPO
FlowGRPO
FlowGRPO w/ DiNa-LRM
HunyuanImage-3.0 Unified understand + gen Text + Image MixGRPO Planned
SRPO Planned
Qwen3-Omni-Thinker Omni-modality Text / Image / Video / Audio DPO WIP
GSPO
Qwen3-TTS Audio-modality Text → Audio DPO WIP
GSPO WIP

Ascend NPU Support 💠

VeRL-Omni now supports Ascend NPU. For instructions on how to install and get started with FlowGRPO training on Ascend NPU, please refer to our Ascend NPU Quickstart Guide.

Roadmap 🗺

Future work is tracked in VeRL-Omni Q3 Roadmap

Contributing 🤝

Contributions are welcome.

See the contribution guide.

Join the Community: Feel free to ask questions, provide feedback, and discuss with fellow users of VeRL-Omni in our WeChat group.

Acknowledgement 🌟

verl-omni builds on the engineering foundations developed in verl and is closely aligned with multimodal inference systems such as vLLM-Omni.

Citation 📚

If you find the project helpful, please cite and star ⭐

@misc{verlomni_github,
  title        = {{VeRL-Omni: Easy, Fast, and Stable RL Training for Diffusion and Omni-Modality Models}},
  author       = {Yongxiang Huang and Cheung Kawai and Jingan Zhou and Yingshu Chen and {openYuanrong Team} and Xibin Wu},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/verl-project/verl-omni}},
  urldate      = {2026-04-28}
}
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