TelecomGPT-R1: A Unified Open-Source Reasoner for the Telecom Stack
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Abstract (arXiv)
Telecommunications is a high-leverage domain for large language model (LLM)-based reasoning because routine engineering workflows require joint grounding in normative specifications, operational telemetry, vendor-specific fault evidence, and exact RF/network calculations. However, current LLM integration in telecom remains bottlenecked by a two-sided capability gap: generic reasoners often lack telecom-specific grounding, while domain-specific telecom LLMs remain limited in structured, multi-step reasoning. To bridge this gap, we release TelecomGPT-R1-9B, a unified open-source telecom reasoner that ranks top-performing on the GSMA open telco leaderboard. Specifically, we curate a 67,427-example supervised fine-tuning (SFT) corpus organized around four complementary reasoning axes: protocol, knowledge, modeling, and fault. The corpus is built from axis-matched public web sources and enhanced through axis-specific chain-of-thought (CoT) generation and prefix-continuation self-validation. Starting from Qwen3.5-9B, we further develop a two-stage post-training recipe. First, multi-teacher low-rank adaptation (LoRA)-based SFT injects telecom knowledge and induces axis-specific reasoning formats. Second, group relative policy optimization (GRPO), stabilized by decoupled clip and dynamic sampling policy optimization (DAPO), optimizes the policy using four axis-aligned binary verifier rewards. Across seven public telecom benchmarks, TelecomGPT-R1-9B ranks first among open-source telecom LLMs and achieves a seven-axis mean comparable to state-of-the-art closed-source frontier reasoners.
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