@article{nerdneurosymbolicruledistillationforeffi, title = {NeRD: Neuro-Symbolic Rule Distillation for Efficient Ontology-Grounded Chain-of-Thought in Medical Image Diagnosis}, author = {Hongxi Yang and Yiwen Jiang and Siyuan Yan and Jamie Chow and Eunis Li and Charlotte Poon and Stephanie Fong and Xiangyu Zhao and Deval Mehta and Yasmeen George and Zongyuan Ge}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.15617}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.15617}, }