OSPD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Persona-Consistent Dialogue

arXiv:2609.34418 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/airaer1998/OSPD

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Entropy-Aware On-Policy Distillation of Language Models
• Privileged Information Distillation for Language Models
• A Survey of On-Policy Distillation for Large Language Models
• GATES: Self-Distillation under Privileged Context with Consensus Gating
• MINDECHO: Role-Playing Language Agents for Key Opinion Leaders
• On-Policy Context Distillation for Language Models
• Self-Distilled Reasoner: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models

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