Get Started with NeMo Gym#

Estimated Time: 25-30 minutes

This guided tutorial experience is designed for those brand new to training models with reinforcement learning (RL). These tutorials walk you through the complete journey from installation to generating training data at scale.

By the end of this tutorial series, you will have:

✅ A working NeMo Gym installation with servers running
✅ Ability to generate rollouts for RL training

Before You Start#

Make sure you have these prerequisites ready before beginning the tutorials:

  • Git for cloning the repository

  • OpenAI API key with available credits (requires ~$0.01-0.10 for all tutorials)

  • Basic command-line familiarity

Tutorial Path#

Follow these four tutorials in sequence to build your first AI agent from scratch:

1. Setup and Installation

Get NeMo Gym installed and servers running with your first successful agent interaction.

environment first-run

Setup and Installation
2. Rollout Collection

Generate your first batch of rollouts and understand how they become training data.

training-data scale

Rollout Collection

Tip

New to reinforcement learning? Do not worry—these tutorials introduce RL concepts naturally as you build.

  • For deeper conceptual understanding, explore the About section.

  • For quick definitions, refer to the Glossary.