A single LLM improves its own reasoning by self-distilling from privileged verified traces as teacher to its question-only student policy, outperforming off-policy distillation and RL on math benchmarks with better token efficiency.
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Self-Distilled Reasoner: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models
A single LLM improves its own reasoning by self-distilling from privileged verified traces as teacher to its question-only student policy, outperforming off-policy distillation and RL on math benchmarks with better token efficiency.