RISE: Recursive Improvement via Self-Extrapolating Policy Distillation
On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense, per-token supervision for language model post-training, but its effectiveness is bottlenecked by teacher quality: external teachers suffer from distribution mismatch, while self-distillation with privileged conditioning is limited by in-context learning capacity. We propose \textbf{RISE} (\textbf{R}ecursive \textbf{I}mprovement via…
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