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New distillation method recovers LLM general capabilities after domain specialization

Researchers have developed a new method called Counteraction-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (CaMOPD) to address the challenge of recovering general capabilities in large language models (LLMs) after domain specialization. Existing methods often struggle when the training data distribution of general teachers is unknown. CaMOPD tackles this by using decoupled alternating training and a gap-based sample selection strategy. This approach allows for dedicated updates for general recovery, periodic checks for domain preservation, and focuses correction signals on samples with larger teacher-student log-probability gaps. Experiments show CaMOPD outperforms baselines in general recovery while maintaining domain-specific behavior in scenarios like role-play dialogue and medical reasoning. AI

IMPACT This research offers a novel approach to improve LLM performance by recovering general capabilities lost during domain specialization, potentially leading to more versatile models.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Tianlei Chen, Jiao Ou, Ziyuan Liu, Ruiming Tang, Jian Liang, Han Li ·

    Counteraction-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for General Capability Recovery with Domain Preservation

    arXiv:2605.27115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain specialization can improve LLM behavior in vertical domains, but often weakens the general capabilities inherited from the original model. Recent Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD) pipelines recover model capabilitie…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Han Li ·

    Counteraction-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for General Capability Recovery with Domain Preservation

    Domain specialization can improve LLM behavior in vertical domains, but often weakens the general capabilities inherited from the original model. Recent Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD) pipelines recover model capabilities by supervising student-generated trajectories …