Xiaohongshu's D³-MOPD dynamic distillation closes 97% of teacher-student gap, 3x faster

小红书技术REDtech · wechat · 2026-09-07

Xiaohongshu's AllSpark team proposes D³-MOPD to fix a flaw in multi-teacher online distillation: fixed data ratios waste compute on already-converged domains. The method reuses the reverse-KL signal training already computes to dynamically reschedule data mixing, scoring each domain by "how far from teacher" × "how fast improving", with a minimum-ratio floor and temperature control. Architecture is lightweight (async watcher + hierarchical sampler, zero changes to the main training loop). On Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with four teachers across math/code/instruction/tool-use, it closes 97% of the teacher-student gap (vs 63% for vanilla MOPD), beats teachers on 3 of 7 benchmarks, and converges 3x faster (47 vs 143 steps to 61.4 avg). Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2608.24987

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