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GateKD: Confidence-Gated Closed-Loop Distillation for Robust Reasoning

Kasidit Sermsri, Teerapong Panboonyuen

GateKD uses teacher confidence to gate distillation of reasoning steps from large models to smaller ones, creating a closed-loop process that reduces errors.

arxiv:2605.13136 v1 · 2026-05-13 · cs.CL

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GateKD consistently outperforms strong open-loop distillation baselines. Notably, GateKD yields substantial gains in logical and symbolic reasoning, remains robust under low-resource distillation settings, and shows clear performance degradation when any gating component is removed.

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That teacher confidence scores reliably indicate the correctness of intermediate reasoning steps and that gating on them does not systematically exclude valid but low-confidence reasoning paths or introduce new selection biases.

C3one line summary

GateKD introduces a closed-loop distillation framework that uses teacher confidence to gate soft supervision, hidden-state alignment, and attention transfer, outperforming open-loop baselines on reasoning benchmarks.

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[1] arXiv preprint , volume= 2023

[2] Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024 , pages= 2024

[3] arXiv preprint , volume= 2023

[4] arXiv preprint , volume= 2024

[5] Proceedings of the 2025 International Natural Language Generation Conference , pages= 2025

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arxiv: 2605.13136 · arxiv_version: 2605.13136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13136 · pith_short_12: BSYSUPX33HP7 · pith_short_16: BSYSUPX33HP7ILOE · pith_short_8: BSYSUPX3

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