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Distillation

Training a small model to copy the behaviour of a big one.

Also called: model distillation

Training a small model to copy the behaviour of a big one.

Why it mattersHow you get near-frontier quality at a fraction of the cost and latency.

See also Quantization, Open-Weights Model

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