2 papers
cs.LG2026
Verify Before You Distill: Prompt-Level Teacher Gating for On-Policy Distillation
Zhiwei Zhang, Zechen Sun, Fei Zhao +6
On-policy distillation (OPD) accelerates post-training by providing dense token-level supervision from a frozen teacher on the student's own rollouts. Vanilla OPD applies this supe…
cs.LG2026
D-MOPD: Adaptive Dynamic Domain ScheDuling for Efficient Multi-Teacher Distillation
Zechen Sun, Zhiwei Zhang, Fei Zhao +7
Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) distills several domain-expert teachers into a single student by minimizing per-domain reverse-KL divergence on the student's own rollou…