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: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
arXiv:2609.37500v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains language models using dense token-level teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories. However, its relianc...
By Yuxiao Yang, Shangzhe Li, Tianrun Yu, Kaixiang Zhao, Taylor W. Killian, Weitong Zhang
arXiv:2606. 21994v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) improves reasoning models by applying dense teacher supervision on student-sampled trajectories.
By Qingfei Zhao, Huan Song, Shuyu Tian, Jiawei Shao, Xuelong Li
On-policy distillation (OPD) aligns a student model with a teacher's logit distribution on student-generated trajectories. This approach has achieved strong empirical gains and can often surpass conve...
arXiv:2609.37898v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning for long-horizon agents typically relies on sparse outcome-based rewards. This leads to a severe cold-start problem, as early-st...
By Youling Huang, Tiankuo Xu, Jiaji Liu, Tong Zheng, Shuo Zhou, Shaotong Qi, Junchi Yao, Shiyang Liu, Hao Xu, Pengcheng Xu, Bo Huang, Hongyi Fu, Lin Lin
arXiv:2606. 27814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training small language-model agents for long-horizon interactive tasks requires both fast imitation and reward-driven improvement.
By Qitai Tan, Zefang Zong, Yang Li, Peng Chen
arXiv:2607. 05804v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student policy by matching a stronger teacher on the student's own trajectories, offering a promising framework for language agent training.
By Yuhang Zhou, Kai Zheng, Haoling Li, Dengyun Peng, Can Xu, Jingjing Chen
arXiv:2608. 11937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models for time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) are trained on large and diverse collections of physical systems and can generalize effectively to new downstream tasks.
By Daniel Musekamp, Boshra Ariguib, Andrei Manolache, Mathias Niepert
arXiv:2606. 27814v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training small language-model agents for long-horizon interactive tasks requires both fast imitation and reward-driven improvement.
By Qitai Tan, Zefang Zong, Mo Li, Yipeng Shi, Yang Li, Peng Chen
The paper introduces SCOUT, a co‑training framework that adapts an off‑policy teacher to better continue from student‑generated prefixes in on‑policy distillation (OPD). By periodically optimizing the teacher’s conditional continuation ability using reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, SCOUT improves the teacher’s performance on student prefixes. Experiments across various teacher‑student setups, model scales, and reasoning domains show that SCOUT consistently enhances the effectiveness of OPD.
By Langlin Huang, Hao Liu, Mononito Goswami, Xinyu Li, Prithwith Jana, Nikos Kanakaris, Patrick Bl\"obaum, Purak Jain
arXiv:2609.24141v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) pays twice for each fresh batch: the student generates trajectories and a stronger teacher scores them. Existing methods i...
By Keye Zheng, Hanyu Li, Zhan Cheng, Yuan Gao