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

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

By Asif Razzaq
Publication Date: 2026-10-22 04:56:00

Perplexity’s JOLT trains one model as teacher and student, matching GRPO’s MATH accuracy with 6.5x fewer training tokens.