{
  "id": 17912070,
  "title": "OC-OPD: Observation-coordinated Supervision for On-Policy Distillation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/oc-opd-observation-coordinated-supervision-for-on-policy-distillation",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-01T15:02:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01965v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Reverse and forward Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergences provide complementary supervision in on-policy distillation: reverse KL refines the student's active token rankings, and forward KL allocates mass to teacher-supported candidates. At student-generated prefixes, we form a four-observation matrix by treating the student and teacher as both candidate sources and evaluators. The diagonal…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
  "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."
}