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Exploring self-distilled reasoning for supervised fine-tuning with Amazon Nova

calendar_today July 21, 2026 person Rushil Anirudh domain amazon-lex

In this post, we explore an idea for generating thinking tokens for datasets that lack reasoning traces in SFT customization. We first examine the reasoning suppression problem, then introduce Self-Distilled Reasoning (SDR), validate it across three benchmarks, and provide practical recommendations.

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