Every Coin Has Two Sides: On the Dual Nature of Generalization in On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.16647 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-17 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-17

Updated: 2026-10-23

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• On-Policy Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Policy distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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