OPSRD: On-Policy Self-Role Distillation
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arXiv:2609.39884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Role prompting elicits specialized behavior from large language models through an expert identity, offering a lightweight way to guide reasoning on demanding tasks. However, evaluating or distilling complete role-prompted answers can miss useful next-token preferences when the sampled solution remains incorrect. Transferring these preferences also requires an objective that reaches alternatives the student rarely predicts. We introduce OPSRD, which uses a fixed expert role as privileged teaching context for on-policy self-distillation without r
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.39884v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Role prompting elicits specialized behavior from large language models through an expert identity, offering a lightweight way to guide reasoning on demanding tasks.
- However, evaluating or distilling complete role-prompted answers can miss useful next-token preferences when the sampled solution remains incorrect.
- Transferring these preferences also requires an objective that reaches alternatives the student rarely predicts.
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