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On-policy self-distillation trains a base model to match the predictions of a context-enriched model after a long session.

Dwarkesh Patel · The next big breakthrough will be AIs learning on the job · 26 Jun 2026

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“But to summarize the explanation,”
“the idea is that we encourage the base model to make the same predictions when trying to solve some real-world problem.”
“as the model with all the context accumulated after a long session would have made.”
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