New Paper: Self-Distillation May Not Suit Thinking Models
amaarora · x · 2026-07-17
A new paper takes a closer look at on-policy self-distillation (OPSD) for thinking models.
The authors point out that OPSD was originally seen as a promising path for recursive self-improvement, as thinking models can leverage their own "privileged information" for reasoning, verification, and error correction. However, the experimental results were surprising: OPSD might actually degrade the performance of thinking models.
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