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Jing Xiong

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#natural language process... Jan 2026

OVD: On-policy Verbal Distillation

On-policy Verbal Distillation is introduced, a framework that uses verbal scores from black-box teachers to rank student-generated sub-trajectories, retaining high-scoring ones and replacing low-scoring ones with teacher-generated continuations and suggests that retaining student-generated prefixes helps preserve explo...

Jing Xiong, Hui Shen, Shansan Gong et al. · arXiv.org · 8 citations

#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

Efficient Reasoning Exploration via State-Conditioned Latent Steering with Progress Guidance

Best-of-$N$ is a widely used inference strategy for complex reasoning, whose effectiveness depends on whether sampled candidates can cover diverse and high-quality reasoning paths. However, post-trained reasoning models often suffer from \emph{exploration collapse}, where independent rollouts repeatedly follow similar...

Hengyuan Zhang, Chenming Shang, Zunhai Su et al. · 0 citations