When and Where to Trust the Teacher: Unifying On-Policy Distillation and GRPO through Entropy-Calibrated Credit Assignment
cs.LG, cs.AI
Submitted: 2026-09-23
Updated: 2026-09-23
Terminology
Sources
- Reward-Gated On-Policy Distillation
- Keep Policy Gradient in Charge: Sibling-Guided Credit Distillation for Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents
- DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
- Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference: Tutorial and Review
- Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards: GRPO's Effective Loss, Dynamics, and Success Amplification
- RLCSD: Reinforcement Learning with Contrastive On-Policy Self-Distillation
- Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms
- Learning from Own Solutions: Self-Conditioned Credit Assignment for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
- DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
- ATOD: Annealed Turn-Aware On-Policy Distillation for Multi-Turn Agentic Tasks
- Distilled Reinforcement Learning for LLM Post-training
- SG-OPD: Sign-Gated On-Policy Distillation via Sign-Consistency Gating and Phased Teacher Sampling
- KDRL: Post-Training Reasoning LLMs via Unified Knowledge Distillation and Reinforcement Learning
- Qwen3 Technical Report
- Self-Distilled RLVR
- Reconciling Process Supervision with Outcome-Based Credit in Agentic Policy Optimization
- Learning beyond Teacher: Generalized On-Policy Distillation with Reward Extrapolation
- DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale
- StepOPSD: Step-Aware Online Preference Self-Distillation for Agent Reinforcement Learning
- Group Sequence Policy Optimization
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