@inproceedings{hu-etal-2026-strongest, title = "When the Strongest Teacher Is Not the Best Teacher: Student-Centric Answer Selection", author = "Hu, Zhengyu and Xiao, Zheyuan and Song, Linxin and Jiang, Fengqing and Li, Yuetai and Xiong, Zhihan and Lin, Junhao and Liu, Yue and Su, Yao and Hu, Lijie and Ding, Kaize and Xiao, Teng and Poovendran, Radha", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1369/", pages = "31221--31256", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }