arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational5 October 2026
Harness-Aware Distillation for Small Language Model Agents
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arXiv:2610.02858v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language model agents are deployed with a harness, the software around the model that manages its context, tools, and feedback. When such an agent is distilled into a smaller one, the harness stays in place, so the student mainly needs the teacher-specific abilities that the harness cannot provide, such as acting correctly on harness information. Standard distillation, however, imitates the teacher's full outputs and treats the harness as part of the input. We propose Harness-Aware Distillation (HAD), which focuses distillation on what the teache
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