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2026-08-27
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Large Language Models
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Knowledge Distillation from Scratch — Copying a Big Model into a Small One
No label ever says "dogs look a bit like cats." A trained model's output does — and that gap is what knowledge distillation harvests. Soft labels, temperature-scaled softmax, where the T² factor comes from, sequence-level and synthetic-data distillation, and how DeepSeek-R1 copied an entire reasoning procedure into smaller models.