# Training Specialist Models without Reasoning Trajectories for Domain Expert Distillation

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/news/120494/>
> Published: 2026-09-16 03:30:01+00:00

Specialist distillation effectively transfers domain expertise to student models via teacher-generated reasoning trajectories. However, when these specialists are trained solely on question--answer pairs without explicit reasoning supervision, what governs the trajectories they generate? In this wor