arXiv Machine Learning By Guo Yu, Wenlin Liu, Yulan Hu, Hao-Xuan Ma, Jun-Peng Jiang, Han-Jia Ye

Dense Supervision, Sparse Updates: On the Sparsity and Geometry of On-Policy Distillation

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arXiv:2606. 13657v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation (\textsc{OPD}) has recently become a prominent post-training recipe by combining two desirable ingredients: on-policy student trajectories and dense teacher supervision.

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