Knowledge distillation (KD) is a standard approach for compressing sequence-to-sequence models, but its per-sample effects are rarely examined. On the BanSum Bangla summarization benchmark, we find that standard KD improves ROUGE-L by only +0.
arXiv:2609.36734v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) trains a smaller-capacity student model to imitate a larger-capacity teacher model by matching output distributions, implic...
By Ayan Sengupta, Vaibhav Seth, Tanmoy Chakraborty
arXiv:2609.22566v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to compress high-performance teacher LLMs into lightweight students. However, distilled students often exhibit subst...
By Dileesha Kannangara, Sanghamitra Dutta
arXiv:2609.34447v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) is becoming an important component of large language model (LLM) post-training for transferring the reasoning ca...
By Linjian Meng, Siyuan Gan, YuHan Li, Xiran Wang, Ziyang Ding, Ditang Gou, Yiming Wu, Zhen Zhao
arXiv:2603. 26556v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Converting a pretrained Transformer into a more efficient hybrid model through distillation offers a promising approach to reducing inference costs.
By Juan Gabriel Kostelec, Qinghai Guo
arXiv:2609.01532v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Logit-based knowledge distillation (KD) is used to train smaller language models (LMs) via supervision from stronger teachers, but whether its benefits...
By Jacqueline He, Howard Yen, Shuyue Stella Li, Margaret Li, Hanqing Zeng, Yinglong Xia, Benyu Zhang, Zhuokai Zhao, Qiang Zhang, Pang Wei Koh, Luke Zettlemoyer, Wen-tau Yih
arXiv:2607. 17247v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) post-training is essential for improving reasoning, adaptation, and alignment.
By Chen Wang, Zhaochun Li, Jionghao Bai, Yining Zhang, Hexuan Deng, Ge Lan, Yue Wang
arXiv:2605. 03677v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has recently emerged as an effective post-training paradigm for consolidating the capabilities of specialized expert models into a single student model.
By Wenjin Hou, Shangpin Peng, Weinong Wang, Zheng Ruan, Yue Zhang, Zhenglin Zhou, Mingqi Gao, Yifei Chen, Kaiqi Wang, Hongming Yang, Chengquan Zhang, Zhuotao Tian, Han Hu, Yi Yang, Fei Wu, Hehe Fan
arXiv:2509. 25837v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) deliver remarkable performance but are costly to deploy, motivating knowledge distillation (KD) for efficient inference.
By Yeongmin Kim, Donghyeok Shin, Mina Kang, Byeonghu Na, Il-Chul Moon
arXiv:2601. 07155v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for transferring knowledge from large language models to smaller student models; however, conventional supervised KD often suffers from a distribution mismatch between training and inference.
By Ijun Jang, Jewon Yeom, Juan Yeo, Hyunggyu Lim, Taesup Kim
arXiv:2607.27836v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language model unlearning is consistently fragile under relearn attacks. On TOFU, fine-tuning on twenty forget examples substantially recover...
By Xiangyu Yin, Jiaxu Liu, Zhen Chen, Chih-Hong Cheng
arXiv:2609.38792v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study training LLM judges from natural language feedback, especially for subjective tasks where the verdict depends strongly on which evaluation cri...
By Ilgee Hong, Changlong Yu, Zhenghao Xu, Xin Liu, Yuwei Zhang, Qin Lu, Bing Yin, Tuo Zhao