Distilling Directional Verification

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arXiv:2610.00997v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation aims to transfer the factual knowledge of large language models to smaller models for efficient deployment. Yet a teacher may recall a relation in one direction while failing to generate the answer in the reverse direction. Distillation from its generated answers can therefore propagate this directional limitation to the student. The same teacher can nevertheless recognize such an answer by scoring the relation in the direc