Vol. I · No. 199WED, NOV 4, 2026
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Where-OPD: Spatially Guided On-Policy Self-Distillation of MLLMs with Synthetic Scenes

On-policy self-distillation has recently emerged as an effective approach for improving language-model reasoning by supervising students with a frozen or EMA version of themselves that receives privileged information. Its application to multimodal large language models (MLLMs), however, remains largely unexplored. Recent approaches use privileged visual information, such as image crops corresponding to a question, to improve fine-grained perception, but their gains are confined to tasks that benefit from such visual zooming and require either human-annotated grounding data or external teacher...

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Scalable, Transferable Meta-network for Data Selection Requires a Different Loss (and Why the Obvious Choice is Problematic)

Data selection is critical for training large language models on massive and heterogeneous corpora. Meta-learning for Training-data Selection offers a principled alternative to heuristic scoring by learning data weights from a target validation objective, but existing methods face a trade-off between fine-grained valuation and transferability to unseen data. A natural solution is to replace per-sample weights with a selection network. However, we find that directly incorporating such a network into existing MTS objectives leads to unstable optimization and poor generalization, caused by weigh...

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