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Equation 12 · Part 1 · A History of Small and On-Device AI

Symbol T

TT
TT

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where ziz_i are the teacher’s pre-softmax logits. “Using a higher value for T produces a softer probability distribution over classes” [ 4 ] , and it is precisely that softness — the relative probabilities the teacher assigns to the wrong answers, not only the single correct label — that carries information a hard label discards: how confidently a teacher model preferred…

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