@article{reasoningpreservedefficientdistillationo, title = {Reasoning-preserved Efficient Distillation of Large Language Models via Activation-aware Initialization}, author = {Junlin He and Yihong Tang and Tong Nie and Guilong Li and Binyu Yang and Jinxiao Du and Lijun Sun and Wei Ma}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.29327}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29327}, }