{"slug": "perplexity-and-nvidia-researchers-introduce-jolt-a-joint-teacher-student-method", "title": "Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method", "summary": "Perplexity and NVIDIA researchers introduced JOLT, a post-training method that trains a single model as both teacher and student. On the MATH benchmark, JOLT matched GRPO's accuracy while processing 6.5x fewer training tokens.", "body_md": "Perplexity and NVIDIA introduced JOLT, a post-training method that trains one model as both teacher and student. On MATH it matched GRPO’s accuracy with 6.5x fewer processed training tokens.\n\nThe post [Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/21/perplexity-jolt-joint-on-policy-learning-teaching/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-and-nvidia-researchers-introduce-jolt-a-joint-teacher-student-method", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/21/perplexity-jolt-joint-on-policy-learning-teaching/", "published_at": "2026-10-22 04:56:31+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-22 06:42:36.052514+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "machine-learning", "large-language-models", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Perplexity", "NVIDIA", "JOLT", "GRPO", "MATH"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-and-nvidia-researchers-introduce-jolt-a-joint-teacher-student-method", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-and-nvidia-researchers-introduce-jolt-a-joint-teacher-student-method.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-and-nvidia-researchers-introduce-jolt-a-joint-teacher-student-method.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-and-nvidia-researchers-introduce-jolt-a-joint-teacher-student-method.jsonld"}}