@article{towardsdistillationguaranteesunderalgori, title = {Towards Distillation Guarantees under Algorithmic Alignment for Combinatorial Optimization}, author = {Thien Le and Melanie Weber}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.20074}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20074}, }