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Yifan Ding

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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Better Supervision Is Nearby: Neighborhood On-Policy Self-Distillation

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) trains mathematical reasoning models using a privileged teacher that sees a reference solution and supervises student-sampled prefixes. Standard OPSD uses one fixed parameter setting at every state, but nearby settings may offer additional supervision. We find that local parameter per...

Xin Wei, Yi-Fan Ding, Yoshua Y. Li et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

AdaGuard: An Adaptive Guard Model with User-defined Policies

This work proposes SafePO, a reinforcement learning algorithm for refining violation identification while balancing explanatory reasoning and final verdicts, and develops AdaGuard, a family of 0.6B, 4B, and 8B guard models that assess agent trajectories under policies supplied at inference time.

Yun-Hao Feng, Yi-Fan Ding, Yu-Xiang Xie et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

SAF-OPD: Stable Advantage Fusion for On-Policy Distillation

SA is proposed, a Stable Advantage Fusion framework that avoids entropy collapse and consistently outperforms fixed-coefficient GRPO+OPD fusion, improving the aggregate score by 0.70% across all six model-domain settings while achieving more stable training.

Yifan Ding, Xin Wei, Yoshua Y. Li et al. · 3 citations

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