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Jul 8, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How DOPD Overcomes the Privilege Illusion to Boost Online Policy Distillation

The DOPD paper introduces an advantage‑aware dual distillation framework that eliminates the privilege illusion, dynamically selects token‑wise strategies, and delivers up to 7.5‑point gains on LLM benchmarks while closing 89.8% of the teacher‑student gap and showing strong robustness across model sizes.