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Order-Only On-Policy Distillation trains students on teacher token rankings instead of probabilities
O3PD matches the order of a teacher's top-K tokens rather than their probability values, making it invariant to teacher temperature. It beats standard on-policy distillation on average across HMMT25, AIME24 and AIME25 in all six teacher-student pairs, by up to 2.9 points, with up to 5.6 points on A…
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