@article{teachingtheteachertheroleofteacherstuden, title = {Teaching the Teacher: The Role of Teacher-Student Smoothness Alignment in Genetic Programming-based Symbolic Distillation}, author = {Soumyadeep Dhar and Kei Sen Fong and Mehul Motani}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2507.22767}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22767}, }