arXiv:2607.11505cs.LGcs.AI2026-07

用相对更新方向替代绝对策略,让旧模型也能有效提升新模型。

Proxy OPD: On-Policy Distillation with Transferable Relative Proxy Update

论文配图:Proxy OPD: On-Policy Distillation with Transferable Relative Proxy Update
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  • 不复制专家策略分布,而是传递优化方向的相对变化
  • 在数学推理与代码生成任务中显著提升强模型性能
  • 适合需要高效迁移奖励信号的模型迭代场景

大语言模型的后训练通常将策略探索与模型优化耦合,限制了高回报行为的复用。虽然在线策略蒸馏可整合独立优化的专家,但其依赖匹配绝对专家分布,可能导致次优监督,尤其当目标模型具有不同先验或已超越专家能力时。为此,我们提出异步后训练框架代理式在线蒸馏(P-OPD),不传递绝对策略分布,而是转移由奖励驱动的策略改进方向。P-OPD首先通过奖励反馈优化一个代理策略,再提取该代理在初始与优化状态间的相对分布变化,通过目标模型自身的在线轨迹传递这些方向性更新,同时保留目标策略作为参考。这种解耦机制仅需代理提供有效改进方向,而非优越的绝对能力,使旧或弱代理的更新信号仍具高价值。在Qwen3系列模型上针对数学推理与代码生成的任务进行系统实验表明,P-OPD持续增强已有强模型。此外,可通过信号缩放动态调节迁移强度,使提取的更新信号可无缝复用于多种模型变体与训练配置。结果表明,相对策略更新是可扩展、基于奖励的后训练中高度可复用且可调的资产。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Post-training for large language models typically couples policy exploration with model optimization, hindering the reuse of high-reward behaviors from policy exploration. While on-policy distillation alleviates this by consolidating independently optimized experts, its reliance on matching absolute expert distributions can yield suboptimal supervision, especially when the target model possesses a different prior or already surpasses the expert's capabilities. To alleviate this, we introduce Proxy OPD (P-OPD), an asynchronous post-training framework that transfers reward-induced policy improvements rather than absolute policy distributions. P-OPD first optimizes a proxy policy via reward feedback. It then extracts the relative distributional changes between the proxy's initial and optimized states, transferring these directional updates through the target model's own on-policy trajectories while retaining the target policy as the reference. This decoupled formulation requires the proxy to provide merely a useful direction of improvement rather than superior absolute capability, enabling update signals from older or weaker proxies to remain highly effective. Systematic experiments on Qwen3-family models across mathematical reasoning and code generation demonstrate that P-OPD consistently enhances already strong target models. Furthermore, transfer intensity can be dynamically modulated through signal scaling, making the extracted update signals seamlessly reusable across diverse model variants and training configurations. These results establish relative policy updates as highly reusable, adjustable assets for scalable, reward-based post-training.

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