Steering the Teacher: Improving On-Policy Self-Distillation for Thinking Models

arXiv:2610.34005 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-25

Updated: 2026-10-25

Terminology

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

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