Amazon SageMaker HyperPod demonstrated cross-Region training and SkyRL-based multimodal reinforcement learning workflows
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The coverage describes Amazon SageMaker HyperPod setups that enable training compute in one AWS Region to access datasets stored in another Region without data replication or training-code changes. It also reports a SkyRL-on-HyperPod workflow on Ray that post-trains a Qwen3-VL-8B model using GRPO for maze navigation, with improved solve rates and resilience features like checkpointing and automatic node replacement.