The Extrapolation Cliff in On-Policy Distillation of Near-Deterministic Structured Outputs
Paper • 2605.08737 • Published • 2
When does on-policy distillation transfer teacher errors? Paper, checkpoints and data. Code: github.com/LiXin97/ErrOPD
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