Learning from the Near Future: Temporal Self-Distillation for RLVR

arXiv:2604.20733 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-04-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-22

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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