@inproceedings{budathoki-etal-2026-understanding, title = "Understanding the Role of Prompt Template in Knowledge Distillation for Safety Alignment", author = "Budathoki, Anjila and Dhakal, Manish and Ampel, Benjamin M. and Ding, Yi", editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi and Dev, Sunipa and Li, Jessy and Elliott, Desmond", booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {EMNLP} 2026", month = oct, year = "2026", address = "Budapest, Hungary", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-emnlp.1399/", pages = "29801--29817", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }