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When Teachers Mislead: Spurious-Signal-Aware On-Policy Distillation

On-Policy distillation (OPD) transfers teacher capabilities by supervising student-sampled trajectories with dense token-level teacher signals. Recent selective OPD methods improve this process by prioritizing signals that are confident, informative, or learnable.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Trajectory-Refined Distillation

arXiv:2606. 08432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a central post-training tool for large language models (LLMs), providing dense per-token teacher supervision along the student's own rollouts.

By Li Jiang, Haoran Xu, Yichuan Ding, Amy Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

DOPD: Dual On-policy Distillation

arXiv:2606. 30626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) offers superior capacity transfer by supervising student-sampled trajectories with dense token-level signals.

By Xinlei Yu, Gen Li, Qingyi Si, Guibin Zhang, Yuqi Xu, Congcong Wang, Shuai Dong, Kaiwen Tuo, Xiangyu Zeng, Kaituo Feng, Qunzhong Wang, Yang Shi, Xiaobin Hu, Xiangyu Yue, Jiaqi Wang, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Uni-OPD: Unifying On-Policy Distillation with a Dual-Perspective Recipe

arXiv:2605. 03677v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has recently emerged as an effective post-training paradigm for consolidating the capabilities of specialized expert models into a single student model.

By Wenjin Hou, Shangpin Peng, Weinong Wang, Zheng Ruan, Yue Zhang, Zhenglin Zhou, Mingqi Gao, Yifei Chen, Kaiqi Wang, Hongming Yang, Chengquan Zhang, Zhuotao Tian, Han Hu, Yi Yang, Fei Wu, Hehe Fan
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Adaptive Supervised Anchoring for On-Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2608. 07935v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) adapts a language model by distilling guidance from a frozen teacher on trajectories sampled from the student.

By Meilin Yang (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Zixuan Ding (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Jianhao Nie (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Weite Zhang (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Yuxin Zhang (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Zhiming Shao (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Li Yu (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China), Zhe Fu (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China)
arXiv AI
Jun 2

SCOPE: Signal-Calibrated On-Policy Distillation Enhancement with Dual-Path Adaptive Weighting

arXiv:2604. 10688v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning has become the dominant paradigm for reasoning alignment in large language models, yet its sparse, outcome-level rewards make token-level credit assignment notoriously difficult.

By Binbin Zheng, Xing Ma, Yiheng Liang, Jingqing Ruan, Xiaoliang Fu, Kepeng Lin, Benchang Zhu, Ke Zeng, Xunliang Cai
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Cornerstones or Stumbling Blocks? Deciphering the Rock Tokens in On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605. 09253v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While recent work in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has shown that a small subset of critical tokens disproportionately drives reasoning gains, an analogous token-level understanding of On-Policy Distillation (OPD) remains largely unexplored.

By Yuxuan Jiang, Runchao Li, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Dawei Li, Zhao Yang
arXiv AI
Jul 3

DemoPSD: Disagreement-Modulated Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 02502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a practical method for training large language models (LLMs) to reason, where a single model acts as both the teacher and the student with different levels of information access.

By Yunhe Li, Hao Shi, Wenhao Liu, Mengzhe Ruan, Hanxu Hou, Zhongxiang Dai, Shuang Qiu, Linqi Song