arXiv:2606. 15912v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn agents that plan, invoke tools, and interact with environments offer a promising paradigm for solving complex tasks, yet their capabilities typically rely on very large models whose inference cost is prohibitive in practice.
By Gengsheng Li, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song, Ruiqi Liu, Tianyu Yang, Jie Sun, Qiyong Zhong, Haiyun Guo, Junfeng Fang, Dan Zhang, Jinqiao Wang
arXiv:2609.14636v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a standard approach for transferring capabilities from large teachers to compact students. Its cost, however, i...
By Zhiyu Gui, Kexin Huang, Jia Guo, Junkang Wu, Zihao Wang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Jiancan Wu, Xiang Wang
arXiv:2609. 40285v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is a promising approach for training language agents, providing dense teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories.
By Yinghui He, Yapei Chang, Khushi Bhardwaj, Daniele Molinari, Tugrul Konuk, Jan Kautz, Ali Hatamizadeh
arXiv:2609.37915v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains a student to match a privileged teacher distribution along its own sampled trajectory. Standard OPSD applies...
By Md. Ismail Hossain, Humaira Kousar, Isidora Chara Tourni
arXiv:2609.39687v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains mathematical reasoning models using a privileged teacher that sees a reference solution and supervises studen...
By Xincheng Wei, Yifan Ding, Yoshua Li, Yuquan Lu, Ziheng Li, Yi Lu, Dongsheng Ma, Rongxiang Weng, Xunliang Cai
arXiv:2608. 01953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) provides teacher supervision on states visited by the student, reducing the distribution gap between training and inference.
By Chishui Chen, Yaoyou Fan, Te Sun, Yi Yang, Chenghao Sun, Delin Mao, Hongbo Qiao, Zuowei Zhang, Junxi Wang, Chenxing Sun, Yangen Hu, Lu Pan, Xuyang Liu, Linfeng Zhang
arXiv:2609.36608v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains multi-turn language agents with dense teacher supervision on student-generated responses. However, standard think-t...
By Zubin Zheng, Jiahao Wu, Shaofeng Zhang, Zhirui Zhang, Yew-Soon Ong, Shengcai Liu
ComputerSD is an online self‑distillation method for computer‑use agents that leverages real‑time feedback from executed GUI transitions. It uses a fine‑tuned GUI analyzer to generate guidance and a step‑level value score after each action, combining token‑level OPSD with trajectory‑level GRPO in an asynchronous training framework. On the OSWorld‑Verified benchmark, ComputerSD improves performance over outcome‑only GRPO by 1.9 and 4.1 percentage points on Qwen3‑VL‑8B‑Thinking and EvoCUA‑8B backbones, and shows strong generalizability in out‑of‑distribution tests.
By Yong Du, Tongbo Chen, Zhengxi Lu, Yizhou Liu, Bofan Chen, Tao Jiang, Wenhao Xu, Yongliang Shen
arXiv:2607. 04763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study on-policy distillation (OPD) for agentic tasks, where an LLM agent interacts with an environment over multiple turns and a student imitates a teacher over these multi-turn interaction histories.
By Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Christof Monz, Xinxing Xu, Li Dong, Furu Wei
The paper introduces Privileged Self-Practice (PSP), a method that retains privileged information (PI) in the prompt rather than the loss during on‑policy self‑distillation for multi‑turn agents. PSP injects short per‑task instructions from an analyzer model when rollouts fail, sampling again with the instruction in context and training with the unchanged GRPO objective. Experiments on AppWorld and SWE‑bench Verified show PSP consistently outperforms plain GRPO, boosting task‑goal completion by up to 65% and resolved rate by up to 61% across three student models.
By Xingyu Su, Abhishek Kumar, Qing Ping, Youzhi Luo, Jonathan Buck, Zach Zhang, Subramanian Chidambaram, Vinayak Arannil
arXiv:2608. 16333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) aligns a student model with a teacher's logit distribution on student-generated trajectories.
By Changhui Sun, Lanbo Liu, Hang Lei, Tong Ling, Jiahang Xie, Zhiyong Zheng, Yujia Wang, Hao Liu, Feng Xiao, Lu Liu, Yanlong Du, Zifeng Cheng, Ziwei Jiang, Qing Gu
Online training enables computer-use agents (CUAs) to improve through interaction with executable environments. However, existing methods primarily rely on sparse outcome rewards, which provide no sup...