2 papers
cs.LG2026
AVSD: Adaptive-View Self-Distillation by Balancing Consensus and Teacher-Specific Privileged Signals
Duy Nguyen, Hanqi Xiao, Archiki Prasad +7
Self-distillation enables language models to learn on-policy from their own trajectories by using the same model as both student and teacher, with the teacher being conditioned on…
cs.CL2026
ReacTOD: Bounded Neuro-Symbolic Agentic NLU for Zero-Shot Dialogue State Tracking
Yanjun Lin, Zimo Xiao, Kartik Natarajan +7
Task-oriented dialogue systems -- handling transactions, reservations, and service requests -- require predictable behavior, yet the moderately-sized LLMs needed for practical late…