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Stanford CME295 Transformers & LLMs | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 6 - LLM Reasoning
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Stanford CME295 Transformers & LLMs | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 6 - LLM Reasoning

November 7, 2025

Nov 14, 20251h 47mWatch on YouTube

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November 14, 2025
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1h 47m
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For more information about Stanford’s graduate programs, visit: https://online.stanford.edu/graduate-education November 7, 2025 This lecture covers:

  • Reasoning models
  • RL for reasoning
  • GRPO
  • Scaling

To follow along with the course schedule and syllabus, visit: https://cme295.stanford.edu/syllabus/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:12:43 Reasoning models 00:27:49 Benchmarks 00:32:04 Pass@k metric 00:48:07 Scaling with RL 00:57:44 GRPO 01:06:03 Comparison between GRPO and PPO 01:16:14 Length bias 01:25:00 DAPO, Dr. GRPO 01:29:38 DeepSeek R1 recipe Afshine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University. Shervine Amidi is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University. View the course playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rOCXd21gf0CF4xr35yINeOy

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Online, Stanford CME295 Transformers & LLMs | Autumn 2025 | Lecture 6 - LLM Reasoning explores How LLMs learn reasoning via verifiable RL and GRPO training The lecture defines LLM reasoning as multi-step problem solving and frames “reasoning models” as models that output a reasoning chain before giving a final answer.

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