arXiv AI By Zhennan Shen, Yanshu Li, Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Zhilin Wang, Yanxu Chen, Rongduo Han, Sunbowen Lee, Yi R. Fung

On the Geometry of On-Policy Distillation

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arXiv:2606. 07082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is increasingly used to improve large language model reasoning, but its training dynamics remain poorly understood.

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