arXiv AI

When Should the Teacher Move? Temporal Coupling and Stability in Self On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606. 03532v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self on-policy distillation trains a student policy against a teacher derived from its own parameter history, yet the teacher's update schedule -- which governs the \emph{temporal coupling} between teacher and student -- has not been systematically studied as a stability variable.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

WDL-OPD: Weak-Driven On-Policy Distillation via Mixture-Constrained Co-Training

arXiv:2608. 09447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) aligns a student with a teacher on trajectories sampled from the student itself, reducing the train-test state mismatch of offline distillation.

By Zehao Chen, Gongxun Li, Tianxiang Ai, Yifei Li, Zixuan Huang, Wang Zhou, Tao Huang, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xianglong Liu, Jianxin Li, Deqing Wang, Yikun Ban
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Look Ahead Before You Distill: Future Trajectory Validation of Teacher Guidance for Agentic On-Policy Distillation

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 Machine Learning
Aug 11

Learning Multi-Timescale Interventions under Safety and Resource Constraints

arXiv:2508. 03875v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many sequential decision problems offer qualitatively different ways of influencing the environment: some interventions act immediately, whereas others induce persistent effects that continue to shape future states long after the decision that initiated them.

By David Mguni, Wanrong Yang, Jing Dong, Ziquan Liu, Muhammad Salman Haleem, Baoxiang Wang, Dominik Wojtczak
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Regime-Conditional Stabilisation of LLM-Augmented Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 04470v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a natural interface for translating human objectives into reward signals for cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), yet the training-time dynamics of this integration remain poorly understood.

By Faid Keddouri, Sohaib Houhou, Aissa Boulmerka, Nadir Farhi
arXiv AI
Jul 3

Procedural Memory Distillation: Online Reflection for Self-Improving Language Models

arXiv:2607. 01480v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), along with recent selfdistillation variants such as SDPO, evaluates each rollout against a verifier and updates the policy from that episode-level signal.

By Ye Liu, Srijan Bansal, Bo Pang, Yang Li, Zeyu Leo Liu, Yifei Ming, Zixuan Ke, Shafiq Joty, Semih Yavuz