arXiv:2603. 01875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is an essential technique to compress large language models (LLMs) into smaller ones.
By Songming Zhang, Xue Zhang, Tong Zhang, Bojie Hu, Yufeng Chen, Jinan Xu
arXiv:2609.22566v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to compress high-performance teacher LLMs into lightweight students. However, distilled students often exhibit subst...
By Dileesha Kannangara, Sanghamitra Dutta
arXiv:2609.36246v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present OLIVE (OnLine InterVEntion). At each iteration, the evolving student policy generates a new prefix, the teacher continues it autoregressivel...
By Haojin Wang, Dylan Zhang, Huaibo Chen, Suhao Yu, Yihang Sun, Zhanyang Jin, Jiaying Ye, Dianqi Li, Prasanna Sattigeri, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Hao Peng
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:2606. 21994v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) improves reasoning models by applying dense teacher supervision on student-sampled trajectories.
By Qingfei Zhao, Huan Song, Shuyu Tian, Jiawei Shao, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2609.13199v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge distillation aims to improve the performance of lightweight student models by transferring knowledge from larger and more powerful teacher mo...
By Dawen Jiang, Zhishu Shen, Zeyu Liu, Tiehua Zhang