Relay-OPD mitigates prefix failure in on-policy distillation by using a teacher-student handoff trigger. When a student deviates from a correct reasoning path, the teacher briefly takes over to generate a corrected trajectory leg for the student to resume optimization.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderImplementing this could reduce wasted compute during the fine-tuning of reasoning agents.
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researcherThis method improves the quality of supervision signals in reasoning-heavy student models.