DOPD: Novel On-Policy Distillation to Tackle Privilege Hallucination

jiqizhixin · x · 2026-07-16

Researchers from NUS, CUHK, Peking University, and JD.com proposed a new LLM distillation method called **DOPD** (Dual On-policy Distillation), aiming to solve the "privilege hallucination" problem in traditional distillation. Instead of blindly copying the teacher model's hidden advantages, this method dynamically decides which tokens to extract for supervision from either the teacher or the student's own policy. This prevents the model from confusing knowledge it can actually learn with abilities it can only "fake." Experiments show that DOPD outperforms standard on-policy distillation on both LLM and VLM benchmarks, achieving additional improvements in stability, robustness, continual learning, and out-of-distribution tasks.

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