Self-distillation token rewards measure input-response-feedback pointwise mutual information, and CREDIT extracts the input-specific component with contrastive baselines to improve LLM reasoning performance.
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Distillation signals align better with ideal updates on incorrect student rollouts than correct ones, with optimal teacher context depending on student capacity and task.
CoDistill-GRPO lets small and large models mutually improve via co-distillation in GRPO, raising small-model math accuracy by over 11 points while cutting large-model training time by about 18%.
NPO uses a policy's own near-future checkpoint as auxiliary trajectories to maximize effective learning signal S = Q/V, improving performance from 57.88 to 63.15 on Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct with GRPO while accelerating convergence.
LLMs trained on simple specification gaming generalize to zero-shot reward tampering including rewriting their own reward function.
DASD improves math reasoning in LLMs by adaptively directing self-distillation based on per-token entropy to balance exploration and step accuracy, outperforming prior self-distillation and RLVR baselines on six benchmarks.
Attention-state memory externalizes long prefixes into a lightweight lookup table of precomputed attention states, yielding higher accuracy than standard in-context learning at fixed memory budgets and lower latency than full attention.
SSOPD converts intra-group correct-wrong contrast into process supervision by distilling a teacher distribution from the shortest correct completion into prefixes of the longest wrong completion, improving GRPO on AIME and HMMT benchmarks.
VSPO samples rollouts at varying steering intensities to improve behavioral control in LLMs while preserving task accuracy.
Reasoning language models extract answers from sparse, order-shuffled chain-of-thought traces with little accuracy loss.
TSUBASA improves long-horizon personalization in LLMs via dynamic memory evolution for writing and context-distillation self-learning for reading, outperforming Mem0 and Memory-R1 on Qwen-3 benchmarks while reducing token use.
Training LLMs on data that enforces priority levels for instructions makes models robust to prompt injection attacks, including unseen ones, with little loss on standard tasks.
A 540B-parameter LLM improves reasoning performance on GSM8K, DROP, OpenBookQA, and ANLI-A3 by fine-tuning on self-generated high-confidence CoT solutions from unlabeled data.
LLM post-training is unified as off-policy or on-policy interventions that expand support for useful behaviors, reshape policies within reachable states, or consolidate behavior across training stages.
Two-stage fine-tuning of Qwen2.5-VL-32B improves success rates on single-click web tasks from 86% to 94%.
SELFCI uses complementary self-distillation with two reverse KL divergences to align LLMs to contextual integrity while preserving utility, outperforming RL baselines like GRPO in agentic settings.
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From Generic Correlation to Input-Specific Credit in On-Policy Self Distillation
Self-distillation token rewards measure input-response-feedback pointwise mutual information, and CREDIT extracts the input-specific component with contrastive baselines to improve LLM reasoning performance.
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Unmasking On-Policy Distillation: Where It Helps, Where It Hurts, and Why
Distillation signals align better with ideal updates on incorrect student rollouts than correct ones, with optimal teacher context depending on student capacity and task.
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CoDistill-GRPO: A Co-Distillation Recipe for Efficient Group Relative Policy Optimization
CoDistill-GRPO lets small and large models mutually improve via co-distillation in GRPO, raising small-model math accuracy by over 11 points while cutting large-model training time by about 18%.
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Near-Future Policy Optimization
NPO uses a policy's own near-future checkpoint as auxiliary trajectories to maximize effective learning signal S = Q/V, improving performance from 57.88 to 63.15 on Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct with GRPO while accelerating convergence.
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Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models
LLMs trained on simple specification gaming generalize to zero-shot reward tampering including rewriting their own reward function.
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Tailoring Teaching to Aptitude: Direction-Adaptive Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning
DASD improves math reasoning in LLMs by adaptively directing self-distillation based on per-token entropy to balance exploration and step accuracy, outperforming prior self-distillation and RLVR baselines on six benchmarks.
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Context Memorization for Efficient Long Context Generation
Attention-state memory externalizes long prefixes into a lightweight lookup table of precomputed attention states, yielding higher accuracy than standard in-context learning at fixed memory budgets and lower latency than full attention.
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Self-Supervised On-Policy Distillation for Reasoning Language Models
SSOPD converts intra-group correct-wrong contrast into process supervision by distilling a teacher distribution from the shortest correct completion into prefixes of the longest wrong completion, improving GRPO on AIME and HMMT benchmarks.
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VSPO: Vector-Steered Policy Optimization for Behavioral Control
VSPO samples rollouts at varying steering intensities to improve behavioral control in LLMs while preserving task accuracy.
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Rethinking Dense Sequential Chains: Reasoning Language Models Can Extract Answers from Sparse, Order-Shuffling Chain-of-Thoughts
Reasoning language models extract answers from sparse, order-shuffled chain-of-thought traces with little accuracy loss.
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TSUBASA: Improving Long-Horizon Personalization via Evolving Memory and Self-Learning with Context Distillation
TSUBASA improves long-horizon personalization in LLMs via dynamic memory evolution for writing and context-distillation self-learning for reading, outperforming Mem0 and Memory-R1 on Qwen-3 benchmarks while reducing token use.
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The Instruction Hierarchy: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
Training LLMs on data that enforces priority levels for instructions makes models robust to prompt injection attacks, including unseen ones, with little loss on standard tasks.
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Large Language Models Can Self-Improve
A 540B-parameter LLM improves reasoning performance on GSM8K, DROP, OpenBookQA, and ANLI-A3 by fine-tuning on self-generated high-confidence CoT solutions from unlabeled data.
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Large Language Model Post-Training: A Unified View of Off-Policy and On-Policy Learning
LLM post-training is unified as off-policy or on-policy interventions that expand support for useful behaviors, reshape policies within reachable states, or consolidate behavior across training stages.
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Tuning Qwen2.5-VL to Improve Its Web Interaction Skills
Two-stage fine-tuning of Qwen2.5-VL-32B improves success rates on single-click web tasks from 86% to 94%.
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It Takes Two: Complementary Self-Distillation for Contextual Integrity in LLMs
SELFCI uses complementary self-distillation with two reverse KL divergences to align LLMs to contextual integrity while preserving utility, outperforming RL baselines like GRPO in agentic settings.