Hierarchical supervision allocation improves long-horizon model distillation

The LENS-OPD method outperforms dense token-level supervision by dynamically selecting which student behaviors to correct based on future impact and learnability.

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Yuhao Sun · Binrui Wu · Zhuoer Xu · Ming Wen · Haoxiang Xu · Bin Chen · +2 more

Ant Group · Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group · University of Science and Technology of China · Peking University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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The authors propose LENS-OPD, a framework that distills a large teacher model into a smaller student agent for long-horizon tasks by hierarchically allocating supervision: first deciding how long the student should explore, then which decision to intervene on, and finally which tokens to correct.

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From Ant Group and 4 others · Part of Credit Assignment in Agentic RL, now 28 papers

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Hierarchical supervision allocation via Locate-Validate-Refine improves long-horizon on-policy distillation for LLM agents.

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