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summary: "Cross-Teacher Guarding for Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation (Road MOPD) introduces non-routed teachers as auxiliary cross-domain critics on student trajectories and coordinates multi-teacher supervision through token-level credit assignment and gradient updates to address gradient conflicts and capability degradation during joint optimization."
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# Beyond Domain\-Routed Supervision: Cross\-Teacher Guarding for Multi\-Teacher On\-Policy Distillation

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**Published:** 2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** llm

## Summary

Cross\-Teacher Guarding for Multi\-Teacher On\-Policy Distillation \(Road MOPD\) introduces non\-routed teachers as auxiliary cross\-domain critics on student trajectories and coordinates multi\-teacher supervision through token\-level credit assignment and gradient updates to address gradient conflicts and capability degradation during joint optimization\.

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