MetaOPD: Meta-Learned Token Weighting for On-Policy Distillation
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arXiv:2610.11989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated responses using token-level teacher supervision. However, uniform weighting overlooks differences in token learning value, while existing weighting methods rely on predefined mappings from prediction signals to token weights. These mappings are not learned from the effectiveness of the resulting student updates, limiting their ability to adapt to evolving learning needs. In this paper, we propose MetaOPD, a bilevel optimization framework that jointly learns the student model and a
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2610.11989v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated responses using token-level teacher supervision.
- However, uniform weighting overlooks differences in token learning value, while existing weighting methods rely on predefined mappings from prediction signals to token weights.
- These mappings are not learned from the effectiveness of the resulting student updates, limiting their ability to adapt to evolving learning needs.
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