Power Distribution Bridges Sampling, Self-Reward RL, and Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605.04542 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-06

Updated: 2026-10-19

Terminology

• Distillation — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

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