Suman Debnath

Suman Debnath

Suman Debnath

Leads developer relations and product for AI infrastructure and managed inference at Crusoe.

Session

Workshop

Date

Monday, November 30

Level

Intermediate

// AI Engineering Skill /

LLM foundations

// 01 / Bio

Suman Debnath is the Director of Developer Relations and Product at Crusoe, where he focuses on AI infrastructure and managed inference. Prior to joining Crusoe, he served as a Technical Lead and Principal Developer Advocate (ML) at Anyscale and AWS, where he worked closely with developer communities to advance the adoption of machine learning at scale. With deep expertise spanning distributed systems, deep learning, and natural language processing, Suman is passionate about bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and practical, production-ready solutions. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and an active contributor to the broader ML and developer community.

// 02 / The session

Post-training at scale: engineering the RL loop for LLMs

Abstract

Reinforcement learning is now a core part of how modern LLMs are aligned, tuned for reasoning, and adapted to specific tasks. Running it at scale is a systems problem as much as a modeling one.

Each RL step chains together rollout generation, reward scoring, and policy updates, and each stage stresses the hardware differently. This session walks through the anatomy of the RL post-training loop and the engineering decisions that determine its speed and reliability.

What you’ll learn

The three stages of the RL loop

Why rollouts are an inference problem

Keeping RL fast and reliable at scale

Skills you’ll practice

How LLMs work · Sampling · Fine-tuning

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