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New dataset AMPLE-Math probes value of privileged info in LLM self-distillation

Researchers have developed AMPLE-Math, a new dataset comprising over 5,000 mathematical problems, to investigate the impact of privileged information in on-policy self-distillation (OPSD) for language models. Their findings indicate that while OPSD can enhance a model's learning by providing a teacher model with additional information like worked solutions, the actual benefit is modest and highly dependent on how the student model is trained and evaluated. The study suggests that the value of privileged references lies more in their ability to facilitate cross-modal transfer of existing reasoning capabilities rather than simply revealing more of the solution. AI

IMPACT Investigates how privileged information impacts LLM training, suggesting current methods may not fully leverage available data.

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New dataset AMPLE-Math probes value of privileged info in LLM self-distillation

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · XiuYu Zhang, Wei Chow, Junfeng Fang, Zhenkai Liang, Tat-Seng Chua ·

    What Does Privileged Information Add to On-Policy Self-Distillation?

    arXiv:2609.20612v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) lets a language model learn from a frozen copy of itself that sees an answer or a worked solution. Giving the teacher this extra information seems to offer the student more to learn, but how much d…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    What Does Privileged Information Add to On-Policy Self-Distillation?

    On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) lets a language model learn from a frozen copy of itself that sees an answer or a worked solution. Giving the teacher this extra information seems to offer the student more to learn, but how much does it add beyond distillation itself? To isolat…