Equation 2 · Part 1 · How a Model Actually Gets Small Enough to Run on a Phone
Symbol z_s
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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
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- [1] Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network ↗
- [14] A Survey on Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models ↗
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