OmniOPD introduces a logit-free, chunk-level distillation framework that improves on standard On-Policy Distillation by using semantic similarity and peak-entropy scheduling, achieving state-of-the-ar…

The paper introduces OPD+, a corrected on-policy distillation framework that mathematically proves the bias of standard stop-gradient methods and improves the stability and performance of knowledge tr…

The paper proposes Visual Gradient Steering (VGS), a method that decomposes the distillation loss into language and visual components and steers the optimization to prioritize visual grounding, signif…

The paper introduces Canonical-Context On-Policy Distillation (CCOPD) to improve multi-turn language model performance by mitigating 'self-anchored drift,' ensuring consistent answers regardless of wh…

ADWIN introduces an adaptive window framework for on-policy distillation (OPD) that efficiently manages the supervision horizon by training on short, teacher-anchored prefixes while using delayed full…

The paper introduces Feedback Distillation, a novel training method that uses a language model's privileged feedback to provide token-level supervision, significantly improving complex reasoning tasks…

The paper proposes CAST, an answer-free self-distillation method that enhances Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) for verifiable rewards, allowing token-level advantage signals even when all sa…

The paper introduces Trust Region On-Policy Distillation (TrOPD), a robust method that stabilizes the on-policy distillation of large language models by restricting training to regions where teacher s…

The OISD framework improves language model reasoning by distilling on-policy predictive signals from the final output layer to intermediate representations, leading to substantial improvements on math…

The paper introduces Lookahead Group Reward (&) to combat Supervision Fidelity Decay (SFD) in on-policy distillation, significantly improving student model performance on long reasoning tasks.

The paper proposes Skill-Conditioned Gated Self-Distillation (SGSD), a novel framework that uses retrieved, potentially noisy skills to guide LLM reasoning, achieving state-of-the-art performance on m…

LARK introduces a novel learnability-grounded approach for selecting reasoning trajectories, significantly improving the efficiency of reasoning distillation by prioritizing trajectories that the stud…

The paper identifies a linear predictive law linking the initial performance gap in on-policy self-distillation (OPSD) to the final performance improvement, allowing researchers to anticipate and tune…

The paper proposes Distribution-Aligned Self-Distillation (DASD) to improve self-distillation by dynamically filtering high-perplexity tokens, thereby preserving useful logical knowledge while suppres…

ThinkSwitch introduces a low-compute co-training procedure that distills the reasoning benefit of large language models into weights, significantly improving performance on specific reasoning tasks.

This paper proposes two horizon-control strategies, Progressive OPD (POPD) and Truncated OPD (TOPD), demonstrating that full rollouts are often unnecessary for On-Policy Distillation, leading to signi…

The paper introduces Trust-Region behavior Blending (TRB), a warmup method that improves on-policy distillation by replacing poor early student rollouts with teacher-aligned behavior policies, leading…

The paper introduces COLAGUARD, a novel guardrail model that efficiently transfers multi-step safety reasoning into a continuous latent space, achieving state-of-the-art safety performance with massiv…

The paper introduces COLAGUARD, a novel guardrail model that efficiently transfers multi-step safety reasoning into a continuous latent space, achieving high safety performance with massive improvemen…

The paper introduces Temperature-Scaled On-Policy Self-Distillation (TS-OPSD), a novel method that internalizes temperature-based policy reheating into model parameters to combat entropy collapse in r…