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Model Distillation in the API

Fine-tune a cost-efficient model with the outputs of a large frontier model–all on the OpenAI platform

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 11

Apertus LLM Family Expansion via Distillation and Quantization

arXiv:2605. 29128v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The wide adoption of LLMs has led to their use in great variety of applications and scenarios, such as chatbot assistants and data annotation, creating the need for the models to satisfy certain budget and hardware constraints.

By Andrei Panferov, Davit Melikidze, Martin Jaggi, Dan Alistarh
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Post-Trained MoE Can Skip Half Experts via Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605. 18643v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales language models efficiently through sparse expert activation, and its dynamic variant further reduces computation by adjusting the activated experts in an input-dependent manner.

By Xingtai Lv, Li Sheng, Kaiyan Zhang, Yichen You, Siyan Gao, Xueheng Luo, Yuxin Zuo, Yuchen Fan, Junlin Yang, Ganqu Cui, Bingning Wang, Fan Yang, Youbang Sun, Ning Ding, Bowen Zhou
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Efficient Knowledge Distillation for LLMs: Offline Top-K Logits and a Fused Chunked KL Loss

arXiv:2608. 03796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small language models are often the only option for deployment under tight latency, cost, and on-premises constraints, but they are rarely trained from scratch: a compressed model is usually recovered through knowledge distillation (KD).

By Bakbergen Ryskulov, Iker Garc\'ia-Ferrero, David Montero, David Jansen, Ali Hashemi, Jezabel R. Garcia, Antonio Tiene, Rom\'an Or\'us
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Brevity is the Soul of Inference Efficiency: Inducing Concision in VLMs via Data Curation

arXiv:2606. 25432v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference efficiency is typically pursued by shrinking the model: distillation, pruning, quantization, and sparse routing each lower per-token cost while treating token count as fixed.

By DatologyAI, :, Matthew L. Leavitt, Siddharth Joshi, Haoli Yin, Rishabh Adiga, Haakon Mongstad, Alvin Deng, David Schwab, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos