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Xiao-Xuan He

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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

RL Starts before RL: On Policy Distillation for Better Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement learning (RL) improves reasoning, but its performance depends on the policy from which training begins. We study on-policy distillation (OPD) as a preparation stage for RL and ask whether its benefits extend beyond improvements in the distilled model's initial accuracy. Under shared RL settings, students...

Shuai Dong, Yong-Fu Zhu, Yu-Qi Xu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Any-OPD: Heterogeneous On-Policy Distillation for Flow-Matching Models via Representation-Space Bridging

On-policy distillation, in which a teacher corrects samples that the student itself generates, presupposes that the two models speak the same language: identical VAE latents, matching architectures, and a common timestep grid. We ask what happens when none of this holds, as when the strongest teacher available and the...

Siming Fu, Zheming Fu, R.Z. He et al. · 1 citation

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