Relay-OPD Framework Fixes Prefix Failures in On-Policy Distillation

Researchers introduced Relay-OPD, a novel on-policy distillation framework that mitigates prefix failures by having the teacher model briefly take over at detected reasoning errors before returning the trajectory to the student model.

2026-07-29 ~ 2026-07-30 · 2 related posts

• Relay-OPD improves on-policy distillation by handing failed prefixes back to the teacher — zju · 2026-07-29
• Relay-OPD: A Novel On-Policy Distillation Framework That Fixes Prefix Failure by Teacher Takeover — _akhaliq · 2026-07-30