@article{chainbaseddistillationforeffectiveinitia,
  title = {Chain-based Distillation for Effective Initialization of Variable-Sized Small Language Models},
  author = {Boyu Shi and YiCheng Jiang and Chang Liu and Qiufeng Wang and Xu Yang and Xin Geng},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.07783},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07783},
}