STEPS: Selective On-Policy Self-Distillation for Reasoning

arXiv:2605.10194 · cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-11

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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