4 papers
Simple-OPD: Demystifying Warm-up for On-policy Distillation
Tao Liu, Taiqiang Wu, Mao Zheng +5
On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own rollouts with token-level supervision from teacher models, but its effectiveness can depend strongly on the warm-up stage b…
ProFit: Leveraging High-Value Signals in SFT via Probability-Guided Token Selection
Tao Liu, Taiqiang Wu, Runming Yang +3
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a fundamental post-training strategy to align Large Language Models (LLMs) with human intent. However, traditional SFT often ignores the one-to-many…
Revisiting Model Interpolation for Efficient Reasoning
Taiqiang Wu, Runming Yang, Tao Liu +2
Model merging, typically on Instruct and Thinking models, has shown remarkable performance for efficient reasoning. In this paper, we systematically revisit the simplest merging me…
Timber: Training-free Instruct Model Refining with Base via Effective Rank
Taiqiang Wu, Runming Yang, Tao Liu +3
Post-training, which elicits a pretrained Base model into the corresponding Instruct model, is widely considered to be superficial. In this work, we first reinforce this hypothesis…