MIND: From Passive Mimicry to Active Reasoning through Capability-Aware Multi-Perspective CoT Distillation

Jan 7, 2026· Jin Cui*, Jiaqi Guo*, Jiepeng Zhou, Ruixuan Yang, Jiayi Lu, Jiajun Xu, Jiangcheng Song, Boran Zhao, Pengju Ren · 1 min read

* Equal contribution

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Overview

Aligning diverse reasoning perspectives with the student’s evolving capabilities to move beyond passive imitation.

Overview of the MIND capability-aware multi-perspective distillation framework

ACL 2026 · Main Conference · Long Paper.

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Ruixuan Yang
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Ruixuan Yang
Undergraduate Student

I am Ruixuan Yang, an undergraduate in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU). I’m interested in Model Efficiency, Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), Post-training & Reasoning, etc.

I am currently a visiting student in Prof. Yulun Zhang’s group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Prof. Huan Wang’s ENCODE Lab at Westlake University.