@inproceedings{lee-etal-2025-steper,
    title = "{S}tep{ER}: Step-wise Knowledge Distillation for Enhancing Reasoning Ability in Multi-Step Retrieval-Augmented Language Models",
    author = "Lee, Kyumin  and
      Jeon, Minjin  and
      Jang, Sanghwan  and
      Yu, Hwanjo",
    editor = "Christodoulopoulos, Christos  and
      Chakraborty, Tanmoy  and
      Rose, Carolyn  and
      Peng, Violet",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2025.emnlp-main.1500/",
    pages = "29489--29511",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-332-6"
}