Paper: Sequential OPD-then-RL Training Beats Joint Optimization

An EMNLP 2026 Findings paper shows that sequential training—on-policy distillation followed by an RL stage—consistently outperforms pure OPD, pure RLVR, and joint optimization across multiple reasoning tasks.

2026-09-16 ~ 2026-09-17 · 4 related posts

• EMNLP Paper: Simple OPD-then-RLVR Two-Stage Training Beats All Joint Distillation+RL Baselines — xiye_nlp · 2026-09-16
• New Paper: Adding RL After OPD Consistently Beats Pure OPD, Pure RLVR, and Joint Methods — gregd_nlp · 2026-09-16
• Sequential Beats Joint: OPD-then-RLVR two-stage training consistently outperforms joint optimization — xiye_nlp · 2026-09-16

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