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DIAL-OPD: Learning More from Fewer Tokens in On-Policy Distillation
On-policy distillation (OPD) supervises student-generated trajectories with token-level teacher signals. Its sampled-token variant avoids the cost of full-vocabulary probabilities. Yet we find that training on fewer tokens can outperform full-token OPD, challenging the intuition that more supervision improves learning. …