Compiling Expert Procedures into Verified Programs: When a Small Model Is Enough
In procedural tool-use domains, how much of the gap between base models is procedure rather than capability? We build an explicit program from a teacher's traces and run it in front of unchanged small models, including an 8B model. The construction, PLVR , takes the reasoning traces of a teacher, Kimi-K3, clusters their segments to locate recurring operations, has a frontier model author one typed primitive per operation, each run by a small frozen model and assembles the program by A* search over a mined rule library, under a reference-action objective. At inference the program takes one of two forms: for troubleshooting and tool search it produces the chain of thought the student would ...
| Authors | Vishvesh Bhat, Asad Aali, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 13 October 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 13 October 2026 |
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