让正确答案决定谁教,提升多领域大模型表现
Learn from Whoever Is Right: Answer-Verified Multi-Teacher Distillation for Multi-Domain LLMs

- 按答案真伪筛选教师,不靠领域匹配选导师
- 在多个模型上将最弱领域分数提升14.79分
- 适合需要跨领域统一能力的部署场景
现代大语言模型通过强化学习在单个领域获得强能力,但如何将这些能力整合到单一可部署模型中仍具挑战。现有方法按领域匹配路由样本,由对应教师提供监督,但领域专家并非总是正确。本论文提出多教师自蒸馏策略优化(MT-SDPO),一种在线蒸馏方法,将多个冻结教师统一为一个学生模型。该方法包含三部分:(1) 自锚点,用同组正确生成结果作为监督;(2) 答案验证准入,仅当教师答案通过验证器时才允许其监督;(3) 优先蒸馏,将锚点与所有经验证反馈合并为一个上下文,由指数移动平均自教师读取,学生不可见,从而在部署时保持单一策略。在三个模型家族的五个学生模型上,MT-SDPO使Qwen3-8B最弱领域的得分提升14.79分,领域差距缩小74.7%,优于每领域单教师方案。可靠度决定教学者,而非领域归属。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Modern large language models (LLMs) rely on reinforcement learning to build strong capabilities in individual domains, but integrating those capabilities into a single deployable model remains challenging. By routing each sample to the teacher whose domain matches it, existing approaches let a domain label decide which teacher provides supervision. However, domain expertise holds only on average: the matched teacher is not always correct on a given sample, while a teacher from another domain sometimes is. The reliable teacher therefore has to be identified per sample, not per domain. In this paper, we introduce Multi-Teacher Self-Distillation Policy Optimization (MT-SDPO), an on-policy distillation method that unifies several frozen teachers into one student model. MT-SDPO consists of three components: (1) self-anchors, where a rollout is supervised by a correct rollout from its own group; (2) answer-verified eligibility, where a teacher may supervise a sample only if its own answer passes a verifier; and (3) privileged distillation, which merges the anchor and all verified feedback into one context that an exponential moving average self-teacher reads and the student does not, thereby keeping one policy at deployment. Across five students from three model families, MT-SDPO lifts the weakest domain of Qwen3-8B by 14.79 points and narrows its domain gap by 74.7%, a better balance than serving one matched teacher per domain. Verified reliability, not domain membership, should decide who teaches. Code is available at https://github.com/hexixiang/MT-SDPO.
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