Knowledge Distillation from Large Reasoning Models to Compact Student Models: A Case Study on the John O Bryan Mathematics Competition

arXiv:2606.31048 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-30

Updated: 2026-06-30

Terminology

• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes

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