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PublishedSeptember 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Zone of Proximal Policy Optimization: Teacher in Prompts, Not Gradients
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arXiv:2606.18216v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Knowledge distillation transfers a teacher's competence to a small student but is brittle in the small-student regime: forcing the student to imitate logits from a much larger teacher concentrates it on the teacher's sharpest modes, hurting general
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