From Reasoning LLMs to BERT: A Two-Stage Distillation Framework for Search Relevance.

@inproceedings{xia-2026-reasoning, author = {Runze Xia and Yupeng Ji and Yuxi Zhou and Haodong Liu and Teng Zhang and Piji Li}, editor = {Hakim Hacid and Yoelle Maarek and Francesco Bonchi and Ido Guy and Emine Yilmaz}, title = {{From Reasoning LLMs to BERT: A Two-Stage Distillation Framework for Search Relevance}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2026, WWW 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, originally scheduled for April 13-17, 2026, rescheduled for June 29 - July 3, 2026}}, pages = {8222--8231}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792801}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3774904.3792801} }