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2026-08-29
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Distillation & Compression
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On-Policy Distillation — Learning From What the Student Actually Writes
Classic distillation has the student copy sentences the teacher wrote. On-policy distillation has the student write, then lets the teacher mark it up. The difference is one symbol in the loss — and that symbol removes exposure bias, turns distillation into a form of RL, and opens the door to self-distillation methods like u-OPSD and AgentOPSD.