Cross-feedback and step-wise scoring let small models match much larger reasoning datasets

The authors' CRD framework iteratively critiques multiple teachers, scores individual reasoning steps, and stitches complementary chains to train compact models on 50K examples.

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Taehoon Kim · Seunggeun Cho · Dongsu Han

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Kim, Cho, and Han propose Collaborative Reasoning Distillation (CRD), a multi-teacher distillation framework combining interactive cross-feedback, step-level quality assessment, and coherence-aware chain stitching.

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CRD-4B achieves 97.3% on MATH-500 and 70.3% on AIME'25 using only 50K training examples.

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