@inproceedings{lei-etal-2026-teachergrpo, title = "{T}eacher{GRPO}: Closing the Capacity Gap in Reasoning Distillation via Teacher Alignment", author = "Lei, Zhenyu and Chen, Zihan and Zhu, Yaochen and Feng, Shangbin and Zheng, Zaiyi and Guo, Ruocheng and Dong, Yushun and Li, Jundong", 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.261/", pages = "5464--5478", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }