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Pass the Baton: Trajectory-Relayed On-Policy Distillation
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Relay-OPD improves student model training by having a teacher model take over when the student commits to wrong reasoning directions, then resuming student training on corrected trajectories.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers training smaller language models on reasoning tasks who want better performance with less compute spent on misdirected generations.
- Watch out
- Method requires detecting failure points and managing teacher intervention budget; unclear how well trigger detection generalizes across different model sizes and task domains.
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