Live-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Proactive Streaming Large Video Models

Streaming multimodal assistants must make response decisions while events are still unfolding. They need to recognize when the available evidence warrants a response, produce an appropriate continuation, and remain silent otherwise. Supervised fine-tuning learns from recorded assistant turns, but does not directly train on the response prefixes produced by the evolving policy itself. We introduce Live-OPSD, an on-policy self-distillation method that uses privileged hints available only during training to supervise the policy on its own outputs. The policy first generates a continuation from the streaming context alone. The same model then re-evaluates that continuation with a hint describing the relevant evidence, and the resulting distributions guide the unhinted policy. On Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B, Live-OPSD attains an average score of 59.64 on LiveProBench, 5.26 points above the strongest continued-SFT baseline, and stays competitive on OVO-Bench (65.84). These results indicate that guiding the policy on its own outputs with privileged hints improves both when and how a streaming assistant responds.

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arXiv (Cornell University)
Published
2026-10-27
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2610.36959
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Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
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Live-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Proactive Streaming Large Video Models

Kaixuan Du, Dai Guan, Guanjun Jiang, Xiaoxi Jiang et al.
arXiv (Cornell University)
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
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Live-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Proactive Streaming Large Video Models

Kaixuan Du, Dai Guan, Guanjun Jiang, Xiaoxi Jiang, Ming Chen, Xin Wan
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Abstract

Streaming multimodal assistants must make response decisions while events are still unfolding. They need to recognize when the available evidence warrants a response, produce an appropriate continuation, and remain silent otherwise. Supervised fine-tuning learns from recorded assistant turns, but does not directly train on the response prefixes produced by the evolving policy itself. We introduce Live-OPSD, an on-policy self-distillation method that uses privileged hints available only during training to supervise the policy on its own outputs. The policy first generates a continuation from the streaming context alone. The same model then re-evaluates that continuation with a hint describing the relevant evidence, and the resulting distributions guide the unhinted policy. On Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B, Live-OPSD attains an average score of 59.64 on LiveProBench, 5.26 points above the strongest continued-SFT baseline, and stays competitive on OVO-Bench (65.84). These results indicate that guiding the policy on its own outputs with privileged hints improves both when and how a streaming assistant responds.

arXiv (Cornell University)
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
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