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Zheda Mai

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Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond the Teacher: Understanding and Preserving Distillation Overshoot in Agentic On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains agents on their own trajectories using supervision from a stronger teacher. We uncover a counterintuitive phenomenon in multi-turn agentic tasks: a smaller, initially weaker student can substantially outperform its teacher during training, only to regress as distillation continues. W...

Ji-Ke Zhong, Ming Li, Yu-Xiang Lai et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Oct 2026

Mind the Tail: Data Selection Through Sparse Concepts

This work establishes concept support, beyond individual sample importance, as a useful principle for data-efficient and robust learning, as a useful principle for data-efficient and robust learning.

Zi-Heng Zhang, Neha Hulkund, Colin Lee et al. · 0 citations

Preprint Jul 2026

Agentic Context Learning with Self-Discovered Specification

The results suggest context learning hinges on not only content acquisition but also specification acquisition, and designs a deliberately simple intervention PSCI (private specification-contract induction) which extracts local specifications and enforces them through adversarial checking and repair.

Jike Zhong, Ming Li, Yuxiang Lai et al. · 1 citation