Lexicographic distillation preserves priority-ordered capabilities in multi-objective RL

Method routes student rollouts to highest-priority unmet specialist and projects corrections to avoid interfering with higher-priority experts.

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Doseok Jang · Jon Ander Campos · Youran Qi

Cohere · Mila, Université de Montréal

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The authors propose LMOPD, a multi-teacher distillation method that uses a lexicographic priority order to route each student rollout to the specialist for the highest-priority unmet objective.

The authors introduce LMOPD for integrating reward-specialized policies under a lexicographic priority order.

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From Cohere and Mila, Université de Montréal · Part of Reasoning Distillation Alignment, now 14 papers

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LMOPD preserves top-priority capabilities by routing each rollout to the specialist for its highest unmet objective and projecting corrections.

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