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  1. SkillForge: Self-Distilling Agents for Project-Specific Issue Resolution

    Source note · Aug 19, 2026 · self-distillation

    SkillForge is a framework that helps large language model-based agents improve their ability to resolve software issues in specific repositories. It does this by proactively acquiring project-specific knowledge from…

  2. Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Observation-Calibrated Self-Distillation

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · large language models, reinforcement learning, self-distillation

    Researchers propose a new method called Observation-Calibrated Self-Distillation (OCSD) to train large language models in reinforcement learning. OCSD addresses a confounding issue in previous methods by comparing two…

  3. OPD-V: Visual On-Policy Self-Distillation with Modality Balance

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing

    The paper introduces a new method called On-Policy Self-Distillation with Visual Modality Balance (OPD-V) to improve the visual reasoning of multimodal large language models. The authors argue that previous methods…

  4. Privileged, but Biased: How PI-Conditioned Teachers Break Self-Distillation

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · self-distillation

    The study investigates self-distillation (SD), a method used in reinforcement learning for efficient teaching by a 'teacher' using privileged information about the answer. The research finds that while SD reproduces…

  5. Privileged, but Biased: How PI-Conditioned Teachers Break Self-Distillation

    Source note · Aug 5, 2026 · reasoning, bias, self-distillation

    The research investigates self-distillation (SD), a method used in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, where a teacher conditioned on privileged information supplies supervision to a student. The study…

  6. TurnSight: Turn-Level Hindsight Self-Distillation for Tool-Integrated Reasoning

    Source note · Aug 4, 2026 · reinforcement learning, self-distillation

    The authors propose a framework called TurnSight for Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR). This framework aims to improve fine-grained credit assignment in long-horizon TIR scenarios by addressing the limitations of…

  7. Enhancing Rubric-based RL via Self-Distillation

    Source note · Jul 20, 2026 · self-distillation

    The paper proposes a new method called Criterion-Distilled Policy Optimization (CriPO) to address two limitations in Rubric-based Reinforcement Learning (RL). The first limitation, Limited Exploration, occurs when…

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