# Self-Play Search Distillation for Large Language Model Reasoning > Source: > Published: 2026-09-30 01:00:31+00:00 Improving reasoning abilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) requires high-quality data that exposes difficult decisions, competing alternatives, and their consequences. Data scarcity is driven by the low quality of synthetic data and the cost of human labeling. We introduce Self-Play Search Distil