Rock Tokens in on-policy distillation persist at high loss, account for up to 18% of outputs, absorb large gradient norms, but add negligible value to reasoning performance.
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Cornerstones or Stumbling Blocks? Deciphering the Rock Tokens in On-Policy Distillation
Rock Tokens in on-policy distillation persist at high loss, account for up to 18% of outputs, absorb large gradient norms, but add negligible value to reasoning performance.