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MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Capability Integration in LLM Post-Training

Computation and Language 2026-06-29 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

Modern large language models (LLMs) rely on reinforcement learning during post-training to push specific capabilities, yet integrating multiple capabilities into one model remains hard. Existing methods, such as Off-Policy Finetune and Mix-RL, are either inefficient or lose performance. In this work, we propose Multi-teacher On-Policy Distillation (MOPD), a post-training paradigm for combining the capabilities of multiple domain RL teachers: we first run per-domain specialised RL to obtain a set of domain teachers, then distill these teachers into the student on its own rollouts. This eliminates exposure bias and provides a dense optimization signal. On Qwen3-30B-A3B, MOPD outperforms Mix-RL, Cascade RL, Off-Policy Finetune, and Param-Merge baselines, inheriting nearly all of each teacher's capability. MOPD also enables parallel, independent development of domain teachers, removing the cross-domain coupling typical of multi-domain post-training. MOPD has been deployed in the post-training of MiMo-V2-Flash, an industrial-scale frontier model, demonstrating its practical value for capability integration in frontier-scale LLMs.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2606.30406,
  title  = {MOPD: Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Capability Integration in LLM Post-Training},
  author = {Wenhan Ma and Jianyu Wei and Liang Zhao and Hailin Zhang and Bangjun Xiao and Lei Li and Qibin Yang and Bofei Gao and Yudong Wang and Rang Li and Jinhao Dong and Zhifang Sui and Fuli Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.30406},
  year   = {2026}
}