Can Compact Language Models Search Like Agents? Distillation-Guided Policy Optimization for Preserving Agentic RAG Capabilities

@misc{ma2025cancompactlanguage,
      title={Can Compact Language Models Search Like Agents? Distillation-Guided Policy Optimization for Preserving Agentic RAG Capabilities},
      author={Jiaxin Ma and Mai Nishimura and Rikuto Kotoge},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2508.20324},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20324},
}