Equation 1 · Part 2 · How a Model Actually Gets Small Enough to Run on a Phone
subscript
subscript
What this part means
The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.
Its job in the formula
A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.
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The passage around this formula
Distillation recovers it by training the small “student” network against the large “teacher” network’s full output distribution rather than against the label alone. Write the teacher’s and student’s pre-softmax outputs for a given input as and . A softmax with a temperature T is
Learn the underlying idea
A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network ↗
- [14] A Survey on Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models ↗
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