arXiv 2609.36484 · cs.LG · 2026-09-29
The Teacher Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Extrapolating RL-Induced Representation Residuals in On-Policy Distillation
Hao Li, MeiJia Chen, Weijie Ren, Donghan Li, Zijun Tian, Jingchun Huang, Naibo Wang
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In latest · #22 2026-W40 #3 Added on 2026-10-21
One-line takeaway
Extrapolates RL-induced hidden-representation residuals in on-policy distillation so students can surpass teachers more stably.
在线策略蒸馏中，沿 RL 引起的隐藏表征变化方向外推，让学生模型更稳定地超越教师。
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