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New H-OPD framework improves multimodal reasoning with dynamic teacher arbitration

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Researchers have introduced H-OPD, a novel framework for multimodal reasoning that enhances on-policy distillation (OPD). Unlike previous methods that use static teacher routing, H-OPD employs a confidence-aware, token-level arbitration mechanism. This allows for dynamic combination of vision-language and text-only teachers throughout the student's trajectory, enabling better utilization of visual semantics and abstract reasoning. Extensive evaluations on 11 benchmarks demonstrate H-OPD's superior performance. AI

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New H-OPD framework improves multimodal reasoning with dynamic teacher arbitration

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Qixiang Yin, Huanjin Yao, Yuchen Cai, Jianghao Chen, Ziyi Wang, Min Yang, Fei Su, Zhicheng Zhao ·

    H-OPD: Confidence Aware Heterogeneous Multi-Teacher Multimodal On-policy Distillation

    arXiv:2607.02592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has recently emerged as an effective post-training paradigm by providing supervision on student-generated trajectories. However, existing OPD methods for multimodal reasoning usually rely on a static t…

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