DCSD Decouples Credit Direction and Magnitude in Self-Distillation
September 27, 2026
Decoupled Credit Self-Distillation (DCSD) separates credit direction from contribution magnitude to prevent teacher judgment errors from polluting student updates. The method uses belief-margin probing to provide more reliable signals during the distillation process.
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researcherThis addresses fundamental coupling issues in RL-based distillation and improves signal reliability.