Compare teacher-answer contexts for latent supervision

Determine whether using accepted teacher-answer context for latent supervision in Temporal-Response Guidance yields different results from using alternative language contexts.

Background

Temporal-Response Guidance measures student temporal responses while both teacher and student receive the same accepted teacher answer, thereby fixing the language context during latent representation supervision. The evaluation does not compare this choice with other possible contexts, such as student-generated answers or alternative teacher-forced sequences.

The authors explicitly identify this comparison as unresolved, leaving open whether the observed gains depend on the selected teacher-answer context.

References

The choice of teacher-answer context has not been compared with other language contexts.

— Redirecting Teacher Supervision: Temporal-Response-Guided Latent Distillation for Video-Language Models  (2610.13045 - Lu et al., 9 Oct 2026) in Section 5, Discussion and Limitations