We have released a paper for OpenThoughts! See our paper here.

OpenThinker2-7B

This model is a fine-tuned version of Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct on the OpenThoughts2-1M dataset.

The OpenThinker2-7B model is the top 7B open-data reasoning model. It delivers performance comparable to state of the art 7B models like DeepSeek-R1-Distill-7B across a suite of tasks. This model improves upon our previous OpenThinker-7B model, which was trained on 114k examples from OpenThoughts-114k. The numbers reported in the table below are evaluated with our open-source tool Evalchemy.

Model	Data	AIME24	AIME25	AMC23	MATH500	GPQA-D	LCBv2
OpenThinker2-7B	✅	50.0	33.3	89.5	88.4	49.3	55.6
OpenThinker-7B	✅	31.3	23.3	74.5	83.2	42.9	38.0
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B	❌	57.3	33.3	92.0	89.6	47.3	48.4
OlympicCoder-7B	✅	20.7	15.3	63.0	74.8	25.3	55.4
OpenR1-Qwen-7B	✅	48.7	34.7	88.5	87.8	21.2	9.5

Data

This model was trained on the OpenThoughts2-1M dataset.

The OpenThoughts2-1M dataset was constructed by augmenting OpenThoughts-114k with existing datasets like OpenR1, as well as additional math and code reasoning data. We generate the additional math and code data by ablating over 26 different question generation methodologies and sampling from the highest performing ones.

See the OpenThoughts2-1M dataset page or our blog post for additional information.

Intended uses & limitations

Apache 2.0 License

Training procedure

We used 32 8xA100 nodes to train the model for 36 hours.

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 8e-05
• seed: 42
• distributed_type: multi-GPU
• num_devices: 256
• gradient_accumulation_steps: 2
• total_train_batch_size: 512
• optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
• lr_scheduler_type: cosine
• lr_scheduler_warmup_ratio: 0.1
• num_epochs: 5.0

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.46.1
• Pytorch 2.3.0
• Datasets 3.1.0
• Tokenizers 0.20.3

More info can be found in our repository: https://github.com/open-thoughts/open-thoughts.

Links

• 📝 OpenThoughts Paper
• 📊 OpenThoughts2 and OpenThinker2 Blog Post
• 💻 Open Thoughts GitHub Repository
• 🧠 OpenThoughts2-1M dataset
• 🤖 OpenThinker2-7B model - this model.
• 🤖 OpenThinker2-32B model

Citation

@misc{guha2025openthoughtsdatarecipesreasoning,
  title={OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models}, 
  author={Etash Guha and Ryan Marten and Sedrick Keh and Negin Raoof and Georgios Smyrnis and Hritik Bansal and Marianna Nezhurina and Jean Mercat and Trung Vu and Zayne Sprague and Ashima Suvarna and Benjamin Feuer and Liangyu Chen and Zaid Khan and Eric Frankel and Sachin Grover and Caroline Choi and Niklas Muennighoff and Shiye Su and Wanjia Zhao and John Yang and Shreyas Pimpalgaonkar and Kartik Sharma and Charlie Cheng-Jie Ji and Yichuan Deng and Sarah Pratt and Vivek Ramanujan and Jon Saad-Falcon and Jeffrey Li and Achal Dave and Alon Albalak and Kushal Arora and Blake Wulfe and Chinmay Hegde and Greg Durrett and Sewoong Oh and Mohit Bansal and Saadia Gabriel and Aditya Grover and Kai-Wei Chang and Vaishaal Shankar and Aaron Gokaslan and Mike A. Merrill and Tatsunori Hashimoto and Yejin Choi and Jenia Jitsev and Reinhard Heckel and Maheswaran Sathiamoorthy and Alexandros G. Dimakis and Ludwig Schmidt},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2506.04178},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.LG},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04178}, 
}