A Unified Per-Token Gating Family for On-Policy Distillation: FKL/RKL Mixing with Multi-Channel and Bias Coefficients

arXiv:2609.11768 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-10

Comments: Accepted at the Findings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026 Findings)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• On-Policy Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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