distillation

Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Distillation (also called knowledge distillation) consists of transferring complex reasoning patterns learned by larger models into smaller ones. In deep learning, distillation happens when a smaller “student” model learns from outputs and logits of a larger “teacher” model; when talking about Large Language Models, distillation typically means performing supervised fine-tuning using high-quality labeled instruction datasets generated by a more capable LLM.

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distillation