@inproceedings{icml2026, author = {Yuanjie Lyu and Chengyu Wang and Jun Huang and Tong Xu}, title = {Student-Centered Distillation Narrows the Agentic Gap Between Small and Large LLMs}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning}, year = {2026}, pages = {84006–84029}, volume = {306}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, month = {06--11 Jul}, publisher = {PMLR} }