arXiv:2608. 11212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Top-k Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) routing is discontinuous, so a deployment-motivated numerical disturbance -- simulated 4-bit KV-cache quantization read by a protected BF16 gate -- pushes tokens across decision boundaries and flips which experts fire.
By Parvel Gu
arXiv:2608. 12957v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) learns from reward differences within a rollout group, but receives no useful relative signal when every sampled response is incorrect.
By Yubo Zhang, Xinhong Ma, Zezhong Tan, Ziqiang Dong
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.
By Yubo Jiang, Fengying Xie, Zhiguo Jiang, Haopeng Zhang
arXiv:2607. 21692v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Sparse attention prunes a long context to the blocks a model needs, and the usual selector is distilled from a dense teacher's attention.
By Jim Allchin
arXiv:2606. 11627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that on-policy distillation can internalize privileged context, such as system prompts or task hints, into a student model so that the context is no longer needed at inference time.
By Xun Wang, Ruishuo Chen, Zhuoran Li, Yu Chen, Longbo Huang
arXiv:2607. 28308v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) language models route each token to multiple experts, suggesting a geometric account of their benefit: co-selected experts should contribute distinct representation directions.
By Huiyuan Tian, Bonan Xu, Shijian Li
arXiv:2608. 05219v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Privileged on-policy distillation provides dense supervision for multi-turn agents by allowing a synchronized teacher to re-score the student's response at every turn with access to training-only references, such as successful trajectories.
By Junzhuo Liu, Weiwei Li, Jun Ling, Peng Wang
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.
arXiv:2608. 14945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) gives language agents dense token-level supervision from a privileged self-teacher on the policy's own trajectories.
By Qizhen Lan, Xi Xiao, Xiangchen Guan, Mengchen Fan, Moule Lin, Jung Im Choi, Lijing Zhu
arXiv:2607. 10805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for enhancing and aligning Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Keqin Peng, Chen Li, Yuanxin Ouyang, Yancheng Yuan, Liang Ding
arXiv:2607. 09692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model distillation -- training on outputs from stronger third-party models -- is widely used to boost performance, but raises concerns about unfair advantages and policy violations.
By Rajat Rawat, Sizhe Chen, Akshay Anand, Michael Duan, Bob Rotsted, Sewon Min
arXiv:2601. 13020v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual instruction tuning (CIT) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to adapt to a stream of tasks without forgetting prior capabilities.
By Zhiyan Hou, Haiyun Guo, Haokai Ma, Yandu Sun, Yonghui Yang, Jinqiao Wang