Self-Supervised Visual On-Policy Distillation

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arXiv:2608.14144v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual on-policy distillation relies heavily on an informative teacher-student asymmetry, through either a larger, stronger teacher or privileged supervision, such as reference answers or ground-truth regions of interest. This raises a fundamental question: where can informative asymmetry come from when nothing privileged is available? We answer this by inverting where the asymmetry comes from. Rather than adding privileged information to the tea