Recent work on distillation transfers the capabilities of large models to smaller ones often by updating the latter's parameters, through teacher forcing, on-policy distillation, and related training-time methods. In this paper, we ask whether such transfer can instead occur at test time.
arXiv:2608. 11829v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as a promising post-training technique for enhancing LLM reasoning.
By Xinmu Ge, Zizhuo Zhang, Yu Huang, Jianing Zhu, Lin Yuan, Wanli Gu, Weichang Wu, Weiran Huang, Xiaolu Zhang, Bo Han, Jun Zhou, Jiangchao Yao
arXiv:2608. 13721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reasoning supervised fine-tuning, candidate responses for the same instruction can differ substantially in how well they match the student's current distribution.
By Cuong Dang, Hoang Anh Just, Ruoxi Jia
arXiv:2606. 31048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper investigates knowledge distillation from a large reasoning model (DeepSeek-R1) to a compact student model (Qwen2.
By Gaurab Baral, Aaditya Khanal, Yangyang Tao, Junxiu Zhou
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.
By Juan Gabriel Kostelec, Qinghai Guo
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a powerful recipe for improving language-model reasoning, but it is expensive to repeat on every new strong model because the target model must generate many rollouts during training. As models scale, post-training itself becomes a bottleneck.