@article{steplevelonpolicydistillationinterpolati, title = {Step-Level On-Policy Distillation: Interpolating Between On-Policy Distillation and Supervised Fine-Tuning}, author = {Changhui Sun and Lanbo Liu and Hang Lei and Tong Ling and Jiahang Xie and Zhiyong Zheng and Yujia Wang and Hao Liu and Feng Xiao and Lu Liu and Yanlong Du and Zifeng Cheng and Ziwei Jiang and Qing Gu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.16333}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16333}, }