26 papers
SAF-OPD: Stable Advantage Fusion for On-Policy Distillation
Yifan Ding, Xincheng Wei, Yoshua Y. Li +7
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) broadcasts a single response-level reward to every token, while on-policy distillation (OPD) scores each token against a stron…
ACE: Pluggable Adaptive Context Elasticizer across Agents
Ning Liao, Zihao Long, Xiaoxing Wang +6
The increasing complexity of agentic tasks has led to rapidly growing trajectory lengths, which poses significant challenges for large language model (LLM) based agents with fixed…
CuraWeb: Joint Optimization of Quality, Redundancy, and Diversity for Web-Scale Pretraining Data
Peiguang Li, Yongwei Zhou, Juncheng Diao +12
Open-web corpora curated via highly selective filters, such as FineWeb-Edu and DCLM, constitute the core of LLM pretraining data and have significantly advanced LLM performance. Ho…
HIPIF: Hierarchical Planning and Information Folding for Long-Horizon LLM Agent Learning
Juncheng Diao, Zhicong Lu, Peiguang Li +6
While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities as autonomous agents across a wide range of tasks, their performance often degrades in multi-turn long-hori…
Predictable Scaling Laws of Optimal Hyperparameters for LLM Continued Pre-training
Yongwei Zhou, Juncheng Diao, Junlin Shang +2
The efficacy of continued pre-training for Large Language Models (LLMs) hinges upon hyperparameter configurations, such as learning rate and batch size. However, current practices…
Prefix Teach, Suffix Fade: Local Teachability Collapse in Strong-to-Weak On-Policy Distillation
Kaiyuan Liu, Ziyuan Zhuang, Yang Bai +3
On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student model on its own rollouts using dense feedback from a stronger teacher. Prior literature suggests that, provided teacher feedback is a…