arXiv Machine Learning By Mingyang Song, Mao Zheng

A Survey of On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Models

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arXiv:2604. 00626v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models continue to grow in both capability and cost, transferring frontier capabilities into smaller, deployable students has become an important engineering problem, and knowledge distillation remains a common technique for this transfer.

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