Interpolated Policy Distillation: A Controllable Continuum Between Off-Policy and On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2609.37170 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

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

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