Preprint
Aug 2026
On-Policy Self-Distillation in Diffusion Models
The results support on-policy self-distillation as an efficient and analyzable approach to diffusion post-training by converting image-level reward guidance into explicit and continually refreshed intermediate supervision, thereby opening a path toward more efficient and diagnosable alignment.
Weina Zhou, Xiongwei Zhu, Lingdong Kong et al.
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