Ask to Distill: Learning to Synthesize Data for On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2610.27450 · cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-10-20

Updated: 2026-10-20

Comments: 28 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 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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