@inproceedings{dao-etal-2026-talas, title = "{TALAS}: Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Embedding Distillation", author = "Dao, Quoc Phong and Nguyen, Hoang Son and Chi, Pham Khanh and Van, Linh Ngo and Diep, Nguyen Thi Ngoc and Nguyen, Thien Huu and Le, Trung", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.1509/", pages = "32705--32723", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }