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Distillation

Distillation transfers knowledge from a large, complex teacher model to a smaller student model by training the student to mimic the teacher's outputs or intermediate representations, creating efficient deployable versions.

Category
training_technique
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Last reviewed
2026-07-02

Key facts

  • It reduces model size and inference cost while retaining much of the performance.

Models Mentioning Distillation(12)