@article{everycoinhastwosidesonthedualnatureofgen, title = {Every Coin Has Two Sides: On the Dual Nature of Generalization in On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models}, author = {Zhaoyi Li and Deyang Kong and Yuan Wei and Evan Yang and Ranran Shen and Mahardika Krisna Ihsani and Ming Yang and Wei Zhang and Chuan Hao and Jian Yang and Ran Tao and Bryan Dai and Shikun Zhang and Wei Ye and Ying Wei and Defu Lian}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.16647}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16647}, }