The paper introduces SGUID, a method that selects a compact subset of skills for distillation in large language models. It shows that fewer than 25% of retrieved skills are useful for on‑policy distillation and that distilling only the selected skills can match or surpass full‑bank distillation while using up to 11× fewer skills. SGUID also enables stable model‑skill co‑evolution by iteratively curating new skill banks from updated model rollouts.
arXiv:2610.09430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Internalizing external skills changes a language agent's capabilities and, with them, the value of its remaining guidance: rules can become redundant,...
arXiv:2608. 09826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards yields no group-relative signal when rollout groups are uniformly correct or uniformly wrong, which account for 63.
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards yields no group-relative signal when rollout groups are uniformly correct or uniformly wrong, which account for 63. 0-68.
The paper introduces a recursive self-improvement framework for language models that replaces an external teacher with a frozen copy of the student, enabling dynamic co-evolution (DCE) and self-refined concise learning (SRCL). DCE allows the privileged teacher to evolve alongside the student, while SRCL trains on shorter, verified rewrites to reduce verbosity. Experiments show that the combined DCE+SRCL approach outperforms traditional on‑policy self‑distillation across multiple model sizes and math benchmarks, achieving significant accuracy gains and shorter outputs.
arXiv:2605.10194v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) uses a model as its own teacher under privileged context, providing token-level supervision on the model's own r...
arXiv:2605.28791v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (SD) improves LLM reasoning by using teacher-side privileged information (PI) to turn sparse verifier outcomes in...
arXiv:2608. 05810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-evolving agents accumulate capability by distilling reusable skills from their execution trajectories, but we find this process is not monotonic: past a critical pool size, newly added skills degrade performance instead of improving it.
arXiv:2609.38142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A small trainable advisor can steer a frozen language-model executor using natural-language advice. In addition to learning from task rewards, the advi...
arXiv:2603. 26556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Converting a pretrained Transformer into a more efficient hybrid model through distillation offers a promising approach to reducing inference costs.
arXiv:2609.36246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present OLIVE (OnLine InterVEntion). At each iteration, the evolving student policy generates a new prefix, the teacher continues it autoregressivel...
arXiv:2606. 04161v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different predictors often excel on different inputs, so picking the best one per instance promises higher accuracy than committing to a single model.
arXiv:2607. 18293v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) teaches large language models new skills through a teacher that shares the student's backbone and supervises its own rollouts.