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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational7 October 2026

Rethinking Cross-Tokenizer On-Policy Distillation: From Alignment Coverage to Supervision Reliability

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arXiv:2610.08448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-Policy Distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own generations using teacher feedback. With different tokenizers, comparing teacher and student predictions requires alignment at both sequence and vocabulary levels. In this paper, we examine whether expanding this alignment coverage improves learning. Across three heterogeneous teacher--student pairs on mathematical reasoning and code generation, strict 1:1 groups already cover most student-generated tokens despite substantial vocabulary mismatch. On responses sampled from the students bef
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