The paper explores on-policy distillation (OPD) in language model post-training, explaining how it can lead to either performance gains or generation collapse. It suggests that OPD amplifies student behaviors favored by the teacher's implicit feedback, and proposes methods like masking unhealthy responses and SFT initialization to mitigate collapse.
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This research provides insights into why on-policy distillation can lead to either improved performance or generation issues, helping to guide safer and more effective model training practices.
The paper investigates on-policy distillation (OPD) in cross-tokenizer settings, focusing on alignment coverage and supervision reliability. It finds that strict 1:1 token alignment covers most student-generated tokens despite vocabulary mismatches, and that restricting reverse KL to a top-16 subset of shared vocabulary achieves comparable accuracy to full shared-vocabulary OPD, while adding span supervision reduces accuracy.
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