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PROOF-Gen: From Optimized Data to Better Distillation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 24, 2026 · UTC

Supervised fine-tuning on teacher-generated trajectories is the standard first stage for distilling tool-calling capabilities into deployable models. Post-training pipelines that drive shipped tool-calling agents re-run this stage on a daily or weekly cadence, paying the frontier-teacher cost each cycle, yet the mechanism is generate-and-filter (keep the teacher's passing trajectories, discard the rest) and each cycle leaves behind the same hard scenarios because failures supply no signal. On τ2-bench, 57% of teacher trials fail, two-thirds of them near-misses (most tool calls correct, undone

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