@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-thinking-right, title = "Thinking at the Right Size: Amortized Distillation Across Post-Trained {LLM}s", author = "Zhou, Yan and Kangaslahti, Sara and Geuter, Jonathan and Nayak, Nihal V. and Fumero, Marco and Locatello, Francesco and Alvarez-Melis, David", 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.1718/", doi = "10.18653/2026.findings-emnlp.1718", pages = "36697--36728", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }