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Aug 2026
Reason Wide, Not Deep: Amortizing the Reasoning Premium into Distilled Skills
This work shows that reasoning traces are not a prerequisite: skills distilled from non-reasoning trajectories alone remain competitive with skills distilled from paired reasoning/non-reasoning corpora, with domain-dependent differences between the two sources.
Agamdeep Singh, Srishti Gautam, Priyanshu Gupta et al.
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