- author = "Soumyadeep Dhar and Kei Sen Fong and Mehul Motani",
- title = "Teaching the Teacher: The Role of Teacher-Student Smoothness Alignment in Genetic Programming-based Symbolic Distillation",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference",
- year = "2026",
- editor = "Nelishia Pillay and Gabriel Kronberger and Leonardo Trujillo and Ting Hu and Sebastian {Rojas Gonzalez} and Saul {Calderon Ramirez} and Stephan Winkler and Yazmin Maldonado and James McDermott and Jose Manuel {Munoz Contreras} and Giorgia Nadizar and Marcella {Scoczynski Ribeiro Martins} and Hirad Assimi and Mario Andres Munoz and Oliver Cuate and Daniel Hernandez and Yanan Sun and Edgar Galvan and Aniko Ekart and Nadarajen Veerapen",
- pages = "744--752",
- address = "San Jose, Costa Rica",
- series = "GECCO '26",
- month = "13-17 " # jul,
- organisation = "SIGEVO",
- publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Knowledge Distillation, Symbolic Regression, Explainable AI, XAI, ANN, Smoothness Regularization",
- isbn13 = "9798400724879",
-
URL = "
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22767",
-
DOI = "
10.1145/3795095.3805148",
- size = "9 pages",
-
notes = "GECCO-2026 A Recombination of the 35th International
Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 31st
Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur",
