Mixed-Policy Distillation transfers concise reasoning behavior from larger to smaller LLMs by having the teacher compress student-generated trajectories, cutting token usage up to 27% while raising benchmark scores.
Wait, we don’t need to "wait"! removing thinking tokens improves reasoning efficiency
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Reasoning Compression with Mixed-Policy Distillation
Mixed-Policy Distillation transfers concise reasoning behavior from larger to smaller LLMs by having the teacher compress student-generated trajectories, cutting token usage up to 27% while raising benchmark scores.