On-policy multi-teacher distillation to combine specialist models
Radar: the post describes MOPD, a method in which a student model learns from its own rollouts and receives token-level supervision from domain-specialist teachers, aiming to combine the abilities of separately trained specialists.
According to the post's description, dated 6 October 2026, MOPD trains a student model with rollouts it generates itself. Domain-specialist teachers provide token-level supervision using a sampled reverse KL objective. The stated goal is to combine, in a single student, the abilities of specialist models trained independently.
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