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2026
H-OPD: Confidence Aware Heterogeneous Multi-Teacher Multimodal On-Policy Distillation
Qixiang Yin | Huanjin Yao | Cai Yuchen | Jianghao Chen | Ziyi Wang | Min Yang | Fei Su | Zhicheng Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Qixiang Yin | Huanjin Yao | Cai Yuchen | Jianghao Chen | Ziyi Wang | Min Yang | Fei Su | Zhicheng Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
On-policy distillation (OPD) has recently emerged as an effective post-training paradigm by providing supervision on student-generated trajectories. However, existing OPD methods for multimodal reasoning usually rely on a static teacher routing, assigning each sample to a single teacher based on modality or task type. This ignores that visual grounding and abstract reasoning may dominate different decoding steps, making a single teacher insufficient for the full trajectory. To this end, H-OPD is proposed as a confidence-aware heterogeneous multi-teacher OPD framework for multimodal reasoning. By verifying the complementarity of heterogeneous teachers in the same reasoning process, H-OPD replaces task or sample level teacher routing with token-level teacher arbitration along the shared student trajectory. H-OPD employs vision-to-language description transfer to enable text-only teachers to access key visual semantics, and uses a confidence-aware arbitration mechanism to dynamically combine vision-language teacher and text-only teachers at each token. Extensive evaluations over 11 widely-used reasoning benchmarks showcase the superior performance of our method.
Beyond the Last Frame: Process-aware Evaluation for Generative Video Reasoning
Yifan Li | YuKai Gu | Yingqian Min | Zikang Liu | Yifan Du | Kun Zhou | Min Yang | Xin Zhao | Minghui Qiu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yifan Li | YuKai Gu | Yingqian Min | Zikang Liu | Yifan Du | Kun Zhou | Min Yang | Xin Zhao | Minghui Qiu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Recent breakthroughs in video generation have demonstrated an emerging capability termed Chain-of-Frames (CoF) reasoning, where models resolve complex tasks through the generation of continuous frames. While these models show promise for Generative Video Reasoning (GVR), existing evaluation frameworks often rely on single-frame assessments, which can lead to outcome-hacking, where a model reaches a correct conclusion through an erroneous process. To address this, we propose a process-aware evaluation paradigm. We introduce VIPER, a comprehensive benchmark spanning 16 tasks across temporal, structural, symbolic, spatial, physics, and planning reasoning. Furthermore, we propose Process-outcome Consistency (POC@r), a new metric that utilizes VLM-as-Judge with a hierarchical rubric to evaluate both the validity of the intermediate steps and the final result. Our experiments reveal that state-of-the-art video models achieve POC@1.0 only about 20% and exhibit a significant outcome-hacking. We further explore the impact of test-time scaling and sampling robustness, highlighting a substantial gap between current video generation and true generalized visual reasoning. Our benchmark are released at https://github.com/RUCAIBox/VIPER.