RISE通过自蒸馏生成合成教师,实现语言模型的递归优化。
RISE: Recursive Improvement via Self-Extrapolating Policy Distillation

- 从自身训练轨迹中构建合成教师,避免外部模型依赖
- 在数学推理等任务上超越RLVR和自蒸馏基线
- 适合需要持续改进的复杂推理与代码生成场景
在线策略蒸馏(OPD)为语言模型后训练提供每标记粒度的密集监督,但其效果受限于教师质量:外部教师存在分布偏移问题,而带有特权条件的自蒸馏则受上下文学习能力限制。本文提出RISE(递归改进通过自外推策略蒸馏),直接从模型自身的强化学习验证与回放(RLVR)训练轨迹中构建合成教师。通过在参数空间或输出对数空间中推断当前检查点与滞后锚点之间的位移,RISE将稀疏的结果驱动参数更新转化为密集的标记级目标,无需任何外部模型或特权条件。RISE将RLVR与OPD以互补方式结合:结果奖励引导外推朝正确推理方向进行,而外推教师则优化标记级决策。由于教师随学生每轮迭代更新,蒸馏成为递归改进机制而非一次性压缩步骤。在数学推理、多领域STEM、代码生成及多轮代理任务上的实验表明,RISE在所有设置下均优于仅使用RLVR训练和在线自蒸馏。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense, per-token supervision for language model post-training, but its effectiveness is bottlenecked by teacher quality: external teachers suffer from distribution mismatch, while self-distillation with privileged conditioning is limited by in-context learning capacity. We propose \textbf{RISE} (\textbf{R}ecursive \textbf{I}mprovement via \textbf{S}elf-\textbf{E}xtrapolating Policy Distillation), which constructs a synthetic teacher directly from the model's own RLVR training trajectory. By extrapolating the displacement between the current checkpoint and a trailing anchor---in parameter space or output logit space---RISE converts a sparse outcome-induced parameter update into a dense token-level target, without any external model or privileged conditioning. RISE combines RLVR and OPD in a complementary loop: outcome rewards ground the extrapolation toward correct reasoning, while the extrapolated teacher refines token-level decisions. Moreover, since the teacher is refreshed every iteration as the student improves, distillation becomes a recursive improvement mechanism rather than a one-shot compression step. Experiments spanning mathematical reasoning, multi-domain STEM, code generation, and multi-turn agentic tasks show that RISE outperforms RLVR-only training and on-policy self-distillation across all settings.
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