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Rohit Jain

Publications 3

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Composing What Each Teacher Learned: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation through Teacher-Relative Shifts

Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) is used in two settings. In common-domain composition, several teachers score each student rollout from one prompt domain and their signals form a single target; in routed-domain distillation, prompts from different domains are assigned to the corresponding specialist. Both s …

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Smaller Models, Better Rejects: Preference Distillation Scaling

Rui Cai, Wenhui Zhu, Xiwen Chen et al. · 2026

Preference distillation typically treats a teacher response as preferred and the student's own response as rejected. This assumes that self-generated failures are the most informative negatives and that rejects must come from a model at least as large as the student, making generation costly at scale. We find neither a …

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