Varnith Chordia

DiffGate: Difficulty-Gated Teacher Guidance for On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as a widely used paradigm for post-training large language models, reducing the train--test mismatch of conventional distillation by supervising the student on its own generated trajectories. However, existing OPD objectives remain largely token-local and outcome-agnostic, optim...