IW-OPD reweights tokens in on-policy distillation
A post published on June 30, 2026 presents IW-OPD, a method that assigns greater weight to early tokens in on-policy distillation and reports a 6.9-point gain over standard OPD on AIME-2025.
Source: IW-OPD Repondera Tokens em On-Policy Distillation (x.com). Text prepared with AI from this source.
What happened and what to do
In a post published on June 30, 2026, researchers present IW-OPD, an on-policy distillation method that assigns greater weight to early tokens and less to later ones. The post reports faster convergence and a 6.9-point improvement over standard OPD on AIME-2025, aiming to reduce performance degradation associated with later tokens.
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