@inproceedings{zhang-liu-2025-staged, title = "Staged Knowledge Distillation Through Least-to-Most Prompting: Optimizing Teacher Guidance via Difficulty-Aware Training", author = "Zhang, Mengxiang and Liu, Lingyuan", editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos and Chakraborty, Tanmoy and Rose, Carolyn and Peng, Violet", booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025", month = nov, year = "2025", address = "Suzhou, China", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-emnlp.451/", pages = "8489--8501", ISBN = "979-8-89176-335-7" }