{"type":"post","id":"jolt-extends-opsd-or-on-policy-self-distillation-7a545f","slug":"jolt-extends-opsd-or-on-policy-self-distillation-7a545f","title":"JOLT extends OPSD , or On-Policy Self-Distillation.","description":"Siyan Zhao, Zhihui Xie, Mengchen Liu, Jing Huang, Guan Pang, Feiyu Chen, and Aditya Grover describe On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) in the arXiv paper “Self-Distilled Reasoner.” The first version was submitted on January 26, 2026; arXiv lists a third revision dated March 20, 2026.","retrieval_nugget":"Siyan Zhao, Zhihui Xie, Mengchen Liu, Jing Huang, Guan Pang, Feiyu Chen, and Aditya Grover describe On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) in the arXiv paper “Self-Distilled Reasoner.” The first version was submitted on January 26, 2026; arXiv lists a third revision dated March 20, 2026.","published_at":"2026-10-22","updated_at":"2026-10-22","record_date":"2026-10-22","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["models"],"entities":["Self-Distilled Reasoner","On-Policy Self-Distillation","Siyan Zhao","Aditya Grover","arXiv"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Introduces OPSD, where one LLM uses privileged reasoning traces to supervise its own on-policy rollouts, reporting improved benchmark performance and token efficiency.","prior_refs":["memory:73aa2d11-5af0-87ed-a2c1-287ef3d1bb6d","memory:e4cab375-c6e9-8cff-adb0-084839023f6a","memory:e06ef06f-4516-84b6-adf7-d31e5ca098b3"],"source_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18734","source_urls":["https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18734"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:jolt-extends-opsd-or-on-policy-self-distillation-7a545f","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/jolt-extends-opsd-or-on-policy-self-distillation-7a545f/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/jolt-extends-opsd-or-on-policy-self-distillation-7a545f.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/jolt-extends-opsd-or-on-policy-self-distillation-7a545f.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/models/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models/","title":"Models","reason":"Explore the models topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/models.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}