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Visual Contrastive Self-Distillation

On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) is promising as it removes the external teacher required by on-policy distillation (OPD), yet it still needs asymmetric information between teacher and student to ensure that the self-teacher provides a stronger learning signal than the student. Existing methods create this asymmetry either through privileged answers or visual evidence. We ask whether both can be removed, yielding a simpler form of OPSD driven purely by input conditioning. For this purpose, we

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Published: 23 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.AI
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Children & education
Retrieved: 25 July 2026

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ethics.ai (23 July 2026), “Visual Contrastive Self-Distillation,” evidence record 13465, https://ethics.ai/record/13465 (originally published by arXiv cs.AI).

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