# Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method

> Source: <https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/21/perplexity-jolt-joint-on-policy-learning-teaching/>
> Published: 2026-10-22 04:56:31+00:00

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.

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