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Distillation Defenses Easily Break After Reinforcement Learning

The paper discusses how distillation attacks can be compromised when attackers further train their models with reinforcement learning, which undermines existing defenses. It shows that even simple attacks can steal reasoning capabilities from closed-source models using easily accessible API data, leading to improvements comparable to more complex methods.

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PublishedSeptember 28, 2026Shidan Javaheri, Alexander Panfilov, Oliver Britton
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This highlights the importance of considering post-distillation reinforcement learning in security assessments to avoid false confidence in defense mechanisms.

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