# How Much Does the Hint Matter? A generic feedback line matches self-written critiques in hindsight self-distillation (ACM ICAIF '26) [R] > Source: > Published: 2026-10-28 21:00:25+00:00 We study hindsight self-distillation for multi-step financial reasoning on GPT-OSS-20B. The student finds its own first wrong step and writes a critique. A frozen copy, conditioned on the prefix plus the critique, is distilled back into the student under reverse KL. Notably, replacing the critique w