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Haojin Yang

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preprint2026arXiv

Asymmetric On-Policy Distillation: Bridging Exploitation and Imitation at the Token Level

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own trajectories with token-level teacher feedback and often outperforms off-policy distillation and standard reinforcement learning. However, we find that its standard advantage weighted policy gradient suffers from three structural weaknesses, including high variance updates, vanishing gradients in zero-advantage regions, and exploration bottlenecks when corrective signals are insufficient. We therefore propose Asymmetric On-Policy Distillation (AOPD), which replaces ineffective negative reinforcement with localized divergence minimization in non-positive advantage regions while preserving positive reinforcement learning. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks show that AOPD consistently outperforms standard OPD, with average gains of 4.09 / 8.34 under strong / weak initialization, respectively. AOPD also maintains higher policy entropy during training and better capability retention during sequential tool-use adaptation.

preprint2020arXiv

Dropout-GAN: Learning from a Dynamic Ensemble of Discriminators

We propose to incorporate adversarial dropout in generative multi-adversarial networks, by omitting or dropping out, the feedback of each discriminator in the framework with some probability at the end of each batch. Our approach forces the single generator not to constrain its output to satisfy a single discriminator, but, instead, to satisfy a dynamic ensemble of discriminators. We show that this leads to a more generalized generator, promoting variety in the generated samples and avoiding the common mode collapse problem commonly experienced with generative adversarial networks (GANs). We further provide evidence that the proposed framework, named Dropout-GAN, promotes sample diversity both within and across epochs, eliminating mode collapse and stabilizing training.

preprint2020arXiv

MeliusNet: Can Binary Neural Networks Achieve MobileNet-level Accuracy?

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are neural networks which use binary weights and activations instead of the typical 32-bit floating point values. They have reduced model sizes and allow for efficient inference on mobile or embedded devices with limited power and computational resources. However, the binarization of weights and activations leads to feature maps of lower quality and lower capacity and thus a drop in accuracy compared to traditional networks. Previous work has increased the number of channels or used multiple binary bases to alleviate these problems. In this paper, we instead present an architectural approach: MeliusNet. It consists of alternating a DenseBlock, which increases the feature capacity, and our proposed ImprovementBlock, which increases the feature quality. Experiments on the ImageNet dataset demonstrate the superior performance of our MeliusNet over a variety of popular binary architectures with regards to both computation savings and accuracy. Furthermore, with our method we trained BNN models, which for the first time can match the accuracy of the popular compact network MobileNet-v1 in terms of model size, number of operations and accuracy. Our code is published online at https://github.com/hpi-xnor/BMXNet-v2

preprint2020arXiv

microbatchGAN: Stimulating Diversity with Multi-Adversarial Discrimination

We propose to tackle the mode collapse problem in generative adversarial networks (GANs) by using multiple discriminators and assigning a different portion of each minibatch, called microbatch, to each discriminator. We gradually change each discriminator's task from distinguishing between real and fake samples to discriminating samples coming from inside or outside its assigned microbatch by using a diversity parameter $α$. The generator is then forced to promote variety in each minibatch to make the microbatch discrimination harder to achieve by each discriminator. Thus, all models in our framework benefit from having variety in the generated set to reduce their respective losses. We show evidence that our solution promotes sample diversity since early training stages on multiple datasets.