arXiv:2605. 07804v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) leverages dense teacher rewards to enhance reasoning models.
By Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yifan Song, Minrui Xu, Yongxin Wang, Yiwei Wang, Xiaodan Liang, Jing Tang
arXiv:2607. 22629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) produce long, explicit chains of intermediate steps before generating a final answer at inference time.
By Durgesh Kalwar, Vardhan Palod, Subbarao Kambhampati
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:2606. 05988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning models produce long chain-of-thought traces that are costly to distill and encourage verbose student outputs.
By Maxime Griot, Paul Steven Scotti, Tanishq Mathew Abraham
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:2605. 09253v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While recent work in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has shown that a small subset of critical tokens disproportionately drives reasoning gains, an analogous token-level understanding of On-Policy Distillation (OPD) remains largely unexplored.
By Yuxuan Jiang, Runchao Li, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Dawei Li, Zhao Yang