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LoOPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation with Looped Teachers

Wei Fan, Qingyue Yang, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Xiangang Li, Kejiang Chen, Weiming Zhang, Nenghai Yu

Searches for layers to repeat to make a stronger teacher from the current model, then distills its predictions into the original student. Repeats search and distillation as the student improves.

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arXiv:2610.18162 · Initial submission: 2026-10-13

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Recurrent reasoning — Repeat parts of the model or keep intermediate information in memory while working through a problem. Some methods also learn how many passes to run.

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