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Zhiyuan Hu

Publications 3

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ReTaCo: Residual-Target Control for On-Policy Distillation

Zixiang Ni, Zhuo Hu, Renjie Cao et al. · 2026

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generated prefixes with token-level teacher feedback, but transmitting or storing the teacher's full-vocabulary distribution at every token is costly. Entropy-aware OPD (EOPD) adds forward supervision to reverse KL to help the student recover plausible tokens it …

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Opera: A Verbal Critic Framework for Long-horizon Coding Agents

Kai Mei, Zhiyuan Hu, Yutong Dai et al. · 2026

Long-horizon coding agents need timely corrections, yet feedback can be ineffective or even harmful when it misjudges ongoing work or fails to address the underlying problem. Existing critics focus on evaluating trajectories and generating feedback, but rarely track what happens after feedback is delivered. We present …

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