POU-OPD — Update Utility
Measuring whether keeping or resetting executable state provides useful supervision.
Keep or Reset? Measuring Update Utility for On-Policy Distillation of Coding Agents. Under review at AAAI.
- Construct paired Keep / Reset supervision from the same student-reached state.
- Compare matched temporary student updates using executable checks.
- Restore the base snapshot before committing one utility-weighted update, or skip when neither branch helps.
The contribution is local, checkpoint-dependent measurement of post-update learning utility. It does not change the deployment policy.