Online Experiential Learning for Language Models research paper by Microsoft, 2026
Microsoft · Training and scaling · Mar 17, 2026 · 28 citations · 61 upvotes · unverified
What it shows
Online Experiential Learning enables continuous improvement of language models through deployment experience by extracting and consolidating experiential knowledge via on-policy distillation.
By Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Qingxiu Dong and 3 more · arXiv 2603.16856 · PDF
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About this paper
- Venue
- arXiv.org
- Citations
- 28, 5 influential · Semantic Scholar
- Upvotes
- 61 · Hugging Face
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Citations rose from 24 to 28.
Influential citations rose from 4 to 5.
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A first count of 21 citations.
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