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PublishedOctober 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Distilling the Shape of Uncertainty: What On-Policy Distillation Learns and How to Predict It
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arXiv:2610.39020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is increasingly adopted in the post-training of large language models. However, a stronger teacher may fail to improve the student. Prior work attributes this to a lack of new knowledge, but what that knowledge is remains
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