Equation 4 · Part 1 · Comparing the Main Approaches to Training Data and Synthetic Data
Symbol y
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y is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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…same idea is applied at one remove: the teacher’s sampled text stands in for its distribution, and the student is trained on that text directly. Writing and for teacher and student logits, for the softmax, y for the hard label, and T for a softening temperature, the canonical objective blends the two signals:
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