More Methods, Better Agents? A Reality Check on Self-Distillation in Agentic Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.19789 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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