Equation 9 · Part 1 · A History of Small and On-Device AI
Symbol T
What this part means
T is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Its job in the formula
T is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol T→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
Hinton, Vinyals and Dean’s 2015 paper, “Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network,” is the one the field actually cites, and it earned that position by generalizing the 2006 idea and giving it a mechanism simple enough to fit into any neural network’s training pipeline. Instead of training a small model against a large model’s hard output labels, distillation trains it against the large “teacher” model’s full, softened probability distribution over classes — the softmax output computed at a raised temperature T :
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