Validity-Calibrated Reasoning Distillation
arXiv:2605.04078v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning distillation aims to transfer multi-step reasoning capabilities from large language models to smaller, efficient ones. While recent methods have shown promising gains, they typically rely on static teacher-student hierarchies and frame distillation as trajectory imitation. This is misaligned with the structure of reasoning, where intermediate steps are locally under-specified: global correctness constrains the final answer, but…