arXiv:2605. 03677v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has recently emerged as an effective post-training paradigm for consolidating the capabilities of specialized expert models into a single student model.
By Wenjin Hou, Shangpin Peng, Weinong Wang, Zheng Ruan, Yue Zhang, Zhenglin Zhou, Mingqi Gao, Yifei Chen, Kaiqi Wang, Hongming Yang, Chengquan Zhang, Zhuotao Tian, Han Hu, Yi Yang, Fei Wu, Hehe Fan
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. 08432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a central post-training tool for large language models (LLMs), providing dense per-token teacher supervision along the student's own rollouts.
By Li Jiang, Haoran Xu, Yichuan Ding, Amy Zhang
On-Policy distillation (OPD) transfers teacher capabilities by supervising student-sampled trajectories with dense token-level teacher signals. Recent selective OPD methods improve this process by prioritizing signals that are confident, informative, or learnable.
arXiv:2608. 03632v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-Policy distillation (OPD) transfers teacher capabilities by supervising student-sampled trajectories with dense token-level teacher signals.
By Yinuo Jiang, Yongjie Ye, Zhou Tao, Xiang Zhuang, Qiang Zhang, Huajun Chen, Tiankai Li
arXiv:2609.38342v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-policy self-distillation uses a model as its own teacher to provide dense supervision for reasoning, often through reference-solution conditioning....
By Zhexi Lu, Subhajit Chaudhury, Tejaswini Pedapati, Keerthiram Murugesan, Lei Yu
The paper introduces GFD-OPD, a method for on‑policy distillation of diffusion models that addresses challenges when compressing large teachers into smaller students. It identifies that standard distillation fails due to distribution gaps and classifier‑free guidance amplification, and proposes Fixed‑State KL to measure these gaps. GFD‑OPD reduces the student‑teacher discrepancy and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance across multiple benchmarks.
By Zhenxing Zhang, Jiayan Teng, Wenxu Wu, Zhuoyi Yang, Jiazheng Xu, Wendi Zheng, Jie Tang, Dan Guo, Meng Wang
arXiv:2606. 00305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) improves large language model reasoning by training a student model on trajectories sampled from its own policy under teacher supervision.
By Yuxuan Jiang, Francis Ferraro
arXiv:2609.08341v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) facilitates the transfer of knowledge from domain expert to student in the post-training phase of Large Language Models (L...
By Han Xiao, Yifan Niu, Dongyi Liu, Chang Luo, Jia Li
arXiv:2609.34447v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is becoming an important component of large language model (LLM) post-training for transferring the reasoning ca...
By Linjian Meng, Siyuan Gan, YuHan Li, Xiran Wang, Ziyang Ding, Ditang Gou, Yiming Wu, Zhen Zhao
arXiv:2604. 20244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime.
By Wenhong Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Rui Wang, Pengfei Liu
arXiv:2601. 07155v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for transferring knowledge from large language models to smaller student models; however, conventional supervised KD often suffers from a distribution mismatch between training and inference.
By Ijun Jang, Jewon Yeom, Juan Yeo, Hyunggyu Lim, Taesup Kim