@article{betterstartsbetterendsbootstrappediterat,
  title = {Better Starts, Better Ends: Bootstrapped Iterative Self-Reasoning Distillation for Compressed Reasoning},
  author = {Leichao Dong and Dongxu Zhang and Yiding Sun and Qirui Wang and Yuhan Wang and Lin Chen and Jihua Zhu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2607.15736},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15736},
}