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2026-08-29
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Distillation & Compression
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When Distillation Fails — Capacity Gaps and Contagious Overconfidence
A stronger teacher does not guarantee a stronger student. A student too small to hold the teacher's structure returns a blurred average; a confident teacher hands down its errors along with its confidence; and the student walks paths the teacher never traveled. The three ways distillation breaks, from first principles.