@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-pivot, title = "{PIVOT}: Perplexity-Informed {KD}-to-{RL} Transition Scheduling for Vertical-Domain Few-Shot Distillation", author = "Li, Heng and Zhang, Yong and Cheng, Ning and Li, Zhigen and Zhu, Yun and Wang, Yanmeng and Wang, Shaojun and Xiao, Jing", 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.342/", pages = "7184--7196", ISBN = "979-8-89176-462-0" }