Stochastic Teacher Intervention for Agentic On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2610.10878 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-07

Updated: 2026-10-07

Terminology

• Distillation — 52× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• On-Policy Distillation — 20× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Task — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Tasks — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• American Invitational Mathematics Examination — 4× in this paper
• Distribution Shift — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• GRPO — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Weighting — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hysteresis — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Procedural Knowledge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

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• Entropy-Aware On-Policy Distillation of Language Models
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• Rethinking On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models: Phenomenology, Mechanism, and Recipe
• Multi-Turn On-Policy Distillation with Prefix Replay
• When Privileged Guidance Misaligns: State-Matched Routing and Contextualized Self-Distillation for Multi-Turn Agents
• Trinity-RFT: A General-Purpose and Unified Framework for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
• GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark
• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms
• Backtracking When It Strays: Mitigating Dual Exposure Biases in LLM Reasoning Distillation
• TCOD: Exploring Temporal Curriculum in On-Policy Distillation for Multi-turn Autonomous Agents
• DASH-OPD: Discrepancy-Aware Switching with Hysteresis for On-Policy Distillation
• Pass the Baton: Trajectory-Relayed On-Policy Distillation
• Qwen2.5-Math Technical Report: Toward Mathematical Expert Model via Self-Improvement
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale

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