Train Ahead, Distill Back: Bootstrapping On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.37132 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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