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Distillation Followed the Tokens That Changed the Reasoning
RP-OPSD concentrates teacher guidance around pivots that advance or redirect a solution across seventeen languages.
Summary
RP-OPSD concentrates teacher guidance around pivots that advance or redirect a solution across seventeen languages.
RP-OPSD estimates reasoning pivots from the distributional shift between teacher views with and without an English reference solution, then concentrates privileged distillation and reference anchoring around those points. Across mathematical reasoning benchmarks in 17 languages and multiple difficulty levels, the authors report gains over their multilingual and on-policy self-distillation baselines. The findings concern benchmark transfer and token-level analysis, not broad fluency or cultural competence.
Why it matters
RP-OPSD concentrates teacher guidance around pivots that advance or redirect a solution across seventeen languages.
Limits and context
- The findings concern benchmark transfer and token-level analysis, not broad fluency or cultural competence.
Key claims
RP-OPSD concentrates teacher guidance around pivots that advance or redirect a solution across seventeen languages.
Qualification: The findings concern benchmark transfer and token-level analysis, not broad fluency or cultural competence.
Evidence: source-2026-08-08-010
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2608.06347arXiv · primary research
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