Position-Weighted On-Policy Self-Distillation (PW-OPSD) weights later tokens more heavily after a diagnostic shows position predicts teacher reliability better than entropy, yielding +1.0 and +1.1 Avg@12 gains on AIME 2024/2025.
f-divergence minimization for sequence-level knowledge distillation.ArXiv, abs/2307.15190
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Hybrid Policy Distillation unifies existing knowledge distillation methods for LLMs into a reweighted log-likelihood objective and introduces a hybrid forward-reverse KL approach with mixed data sampling to improve stability, efficiency, and performance.
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When Are Teacher Tokens Reliable? Position-Weighted On-Policy Self-Distillation for Reasoning
Position-Weighted On-Policy Self-Distillation (PW-OPSD) weights later tokens more heavily after a diagnostic shows position predicts teacher reliability better than entropy, yielding +1.0 and +1.1 Avg@12 gains on AIME 2024/2025.
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Hybrid Policy Distillation for LLMs
Hybrid Policy Distillation unifies existing knowledge distillation methods for LLMs into a reweighted log-likelihood objective and introduces a hybrid forward-reverse KL approach with mixed data sampling to improve stability, efficiency, and performance.