arXiv:2609.11768v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Per-token gating of forward/reverse KL losses has become a standard technique for on-policy knowledge distillation (OPD), but existing methods such as EOPD (Jin et al., 2026) and ToDi (Jung et al., 2025) each fix a single gating s…
arXiv cs.AI
TIER_1English(EN)·Mohammadreza Armandpour, Fatih Ilhan, David Harrison, Ajay Jaiswal, Duc N. M Hoang, Fartash Faghri, Yizhe Zhang, Minsik Cho, Mehrdad Farajtabar·
arXiv:2605.10889v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy distillation offers dense, per-token supervision for training reasoning models; however, it remains unclear under which conditions this signal is beneficial and under which it is detrimental. Which teacher model …
arXiv cs.LG
TIER_1English(EN)·Tianle Xia, Lingxiang Hu, Yiding Sun, Linfang Shang, Ming Xu, Lan Xu, Ning Zheng, Wei Xu, Jie Jiang·
arXiv:2609.08337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) transfers teacher knowledge on student-generated trajectories, but efficient sampled objectives reduce the teacher distribution to scalar credit on individual tokens. Such credit indicates whether a toke…
arXiv:2609.08341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) facilitates the transfer of knowledge from domain expert to student in the post-training phase of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the supervision signals in mainstream OPD methods suffer from high…
On-policy self-distillation for mathematical reasoning uses privileged information to guide a model without a larger teacher, but suffers from reasoning collapse governed by token weighting, privileged context, and guidance dynamics.