arXiv AI

Trust Region Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607. 04751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Big goals are hard to achieve all at once; breaking them into small steps is wiser.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

OPRD: On-Policy Representation Distillation

arXiv:2606. 06021v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) supervises the student only in output space by matching next-token probabilities.

By Shenzhi Yang, Guangcheng Zhu, Bowen Song, Haobo Wang, Mingxuan Xia, Xing Zheng, Yingfan Ma, Zhongqi Chen, Weiqiang Wang, Gang Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

OPD+: Rethinking the Advantage Design for On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2606. 01039v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is a widely used technique to transfer capabilities from capable teacher language models to the base student models, and can be formulated in a reinforcement learning style objective using student generated rollouts.

By Hanyang Zhao, Haoxian Chen, Han Lin, Genta Indra Winata, David Yao, Wenpin Tang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

SG-OPD: Sign-Gated On-Policy Distillation via Sign-Consistency Gating and Phased Teacher Sampling

arXiv:2606. 09304v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own trajectories with dense per-token supervision from a stronger teacher, and often outperforms off-policy distillation and standard reinforcement learning.

By Haoran Xu, Hongyu Wang, Yifei Gao, Jiaze Li, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xiaosong Yuan
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Distill What You Trust: Reliability-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.23697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-teacher on-policy distillation allows a student to learn from complementary specialists on its own trajectories. Domain-routed approaches, howe...

By Jie Sun, Mao Zheng, Mingyang Song, Zeyuan Liu, Gengsheng Li, Houcheng Jiang, Yilin Cheng, Bichuan Feng, Yuchen Cai, Junfeng Fang, Xiang Wang