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The Role of Feedback Alignment in Self-Distillation

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arXiv:2606. 11173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conditioning a language model on additional context, such as feedback on a previous attempt, typically improves its response.

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arXiv:2608. 04794v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-distillation (SD) has emerged as a compute-efficient alternative to reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards: a self-teacher, conditioned on privileged information (PI) about the answer such as a reference solution, supplies dense per-token supervision to a student that never sees it.

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