ATOD: Annealed Turn-aware On-policy Distillation for Multi-turn Autonomous Agents
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arXiv:2606.27814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training small language-model agents for long-horizon interactive tasks requires both fast imitation and reward-driven improvement. On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher guidance and typically improves rapidly in the early stage, but its gains saturate once the student approaches the teacher, limiting the final performance ceiling. Reinforcement learning (RL) directly optimizes environment rewards and encourages exploratory…
1Key Takeaways
- arXiv:2606.27814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training small language-model agents for long-horizon interactive tasks requires both fast imitation and reward-driven improvement.
- On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher guidance and typically improves rapidly in the early stage, but its gains saturate once the student approaches the teacher, limiting the final performance ceiling.
- Reinforcement learning (RL) directly optimizes environment rewards and encourages exploratory….
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