Reasoning distillation via SFT induces functional alignment collapse, dropping correlation with human difficulty scaling from 0.64 to 0.34 and often causing negative transfer.
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Reasoning distillation via SFT induces functional alignment collapse, dropping correlation with human difficulty scaling from 0.64 to 0.34 and often causing negative transfer.