{
  "id": 13858735,
  "title": "A Privileged Teacher That Only Scores Cannot Search: Critique-Conditioned On-Policy Self-Distillation for Reasoning",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/a-privileged-teacher-that-only-scores-cannot-search-critique",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-09T15:36:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13744v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "On-policy self-distillation promises to replace the sparse outcome signal of verifiable-reward RL with dense token-level credit: a teacher conditioned on the reference solution scores the student's own rollout, and the resulting distributional shift is distilled back into the policy. We investigate whether this scoring signal actually contains corrective credit. Using gold error spans in student…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}