Through the Valley: Path to Effective Long CoT Training for Small Language Models

Renjie Luo, Jiaxi Li, Chen Huang, Wei Lu. Through the Valley: Path to Effective Long CoT Training for Small Language Models. In Christos Christodoulopoulos 0001, Tanmoy Chakraborty 0002, Carolyn Rose, Violet Peng, editors, Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2025, Suzhou, China, November 4-9, 2025. pages 4972-4992, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. [doi]

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