Perplexity's hint-guided self-distillation cuts its agent's tool-call failures by 21.2%
perplexity_ai · x · 2026-09-23
Perplexity published new research on post-training its Computer model to learn from its own errors using hint-guided self-distillation. In a live A/B test, a later checkpoint reduced tool-call failures by 21.2% relative to an earlier one.
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