Aha-Flow Distillation: Flow Markers Matter in LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2609.07036 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-07

Updated: 2026-09-07

Comments: Work in progress

Code: https://github.com/Wang-Xiaodong1899/Aha-Flow-Distillation

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Distillation — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aha-Flow Distillation — 2× in this paper
• Self-distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• On-policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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