Ablating individual constraints improves distillation for complex instruction following

CC-OPD derives token-level training rewards by measuring how a frozen teacher's predictions change when each instruction constraint is removed.

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Yanzhao Zheng · Yuanqiang Yu · Tianze Xu · Chao Ma · Zhentao Zhang · Jihuai Zhu · +3 more

Alibaba Group

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The authors introduce a form of on-policy distillation designed for prompts containing many simultaneous constraints.

The authors developed Counterfactual Constraint-Conditioned On-Policy Distillation, or CC-OPD.

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CC-OPD improves multi-constraint instruction following by using per-constraint probability differentials as token-level rewards.

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