@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-understanding,
    title = "Understanding Knowledge Distillation in Post-Training: When It Helps and When It Fails",
    author = "Liu, Xin  and
      Ma, Simin  and
      Liu, Shujian  and
      Wang, Song  and
      Indurthi, Sathish Reddy  and
      Deng, Haoyun  and
      Wang, Lu  and
      Song, Kaiqiang",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {IJCNLP}-{AACL} 2026",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-aacl.39/",
    pages = "754--767",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-444-6"
}