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On-Policy Delta Distillation for Multilingual Math Reasoning

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On-Policy Distillation (OPD) is emerging as a promising alternative to reinforcement learning for LLM post-training, yet its effectiveness in multilingual settings remains underexplored. We study OPD and its advanced variant, On-Policy Delta Distillation (OPD$^2$), for mathematical reasoning in English, Korean, and Japanese.

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