Distill What You Trust: Reliability-Aware Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.23697 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-20

Updated: 2026-09-30

Comments: 14 pages, 5 figures, 1 table

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

Terminology

Distillation — 72× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
On-Policy Distillation — 26× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 13× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Knowledge Distillation — 12× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
Verifier — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — 2× in this paper
Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Self-distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Distribution Matching — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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