No Second Run: RSI for LLM Pretraining Yields 30B MoE Model in 3 Months
Shanghai AI Lab and Xinxu AI introduce No Second Run, a recursive self-improvement method for LLM pretraining using debugging, headroom evaluation, and experience-to-metric loops. In three months they trained the 801-30B-A3B MoE model (30B total, 3B active params) on 11.8T tokens, scoring 73.13 average on 13 base benchmarks (second only to Qwen3.5-35B-A3B) and achieving top Agent benchmark results after 6.33B-token SFT without RL.
