arXiv:2604.03128cs.LGcs.CL2026-04被引 67

用自蒸馏提升大模型训练精度,同时保持环境反馈的可靠性。

Self-Distilled RLVR

  • 自蒸馏获取逐令牌策略差异,指导精细更新幅度。
  • 结合环境反馈确定更新方向,实现更稳定且高效训练。
  • 适合追求高精度与稳定性的大模型强化学习研究者。

在线策略蒸馏(OPD)已成为大模型训练的主流范式,通过更大的教师模型为每条采样轨迹提供密集、细粒度的信号,而基于可验证奖励的强化学习(RLVR)仅从环境中获得稀疏的可验证结果信号。近期,社区探索了在线策略自蒸馏(OPSD),即同一模型同时充当教师和学生,教师接收额外特权信息(如参考答案)以实现自我进化。本文表明,仅依赖特权教师生成的学习信号会导致严重的信息泄露和长期训练不稳定。因此,我们明确了自蒸馏的最佳适用场景,并提出 extbf{RLSD}(RLVR with Self-Distillation)。具体而言,利用自蒸馏获取逐令牌策略差异以确定精细更新幅度,同时保留RLVR从环境反馈(如回答正确性)中提取可靠更新方向。这使RLSD能同时融合RLVR与OPSD的优势,达到更高的收敛上限和更优的训练稳定性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a popular training paradigm in the LLM community. This paradigm selects a larger model as the teacher to provide dense, fine-grained signals for each sampled trajectory, in contrast to reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), which only obtains sparse signals from verifiable outcomes in the environment. Recently, the community has explored on-policy self-distillation (OPSD), where the same model serves as both teacher and student, with the teacher receiving additional privileged information such as reference answers to enable self-evolution. This paper demonstrates that learning signals solely derived from the privileged teacher result in severe information leakage and unstable long-term training. Accordingly, we identify the optimal niche for self-distillation and propose \textbf{RLSD} (\textbf{RL}VR with \textbf{S}elf-\textbf{D}istillation). Specifically, we leverage self-distillation to obtain token-level policy differences for determining fine-grained update magnitudes, while continuing to use RLVR to derive reliable update directions from environmental feedback (e.g., response correctness). This enables RLSD to simultaneously harness the strengths of both RLVR and OPSD, achieving a higher convergence ceiling and superior training stability.

大模型训练强化学习自蒸馏策略优化

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