arXiv:2607. 04432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A student model trained on pure uniform noise can still inherit its teacher's digit-classification ability, provided the two share initialization.
arXiv:2606. 12171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) and mixup have proven effective at inducing smoothness in class boundaries; KD captures inherent class relationships in probability distributions, and mixup enforces them through convex combinations of inputs.
arXiv:2606. 02237v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) compresses pretrained diffusion models into efficient few-step generators by aligning their noised distributions across all scales.
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards yields no group-relative signal when rollout groups are uniformly correct or uniformly wrong, which account for 63. 0-68.
arXiv:2608. 09826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards yields no group-relative signal when rollout groups are uniformly correct or uniformly wrong, which account for 63.
arXiv:2605. 31191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate how teacher-student capacity relationships modulate knowledge distillation (KD) effectiveness in ResNet-based image classification on CIFAR-10.
arXiv:2607. 09692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model distillation -- training on outputs from stronger third-party models -- is widely used to boost performance, but raises concerns about unfair advantages and policy violations.
arXiv:2607. 09842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate whether identity-specifying system prompts produce statistically distinguishable geometric fingerprints in the hidden-state trajectories of four open-weight transformer language models spanning four post-training regimes: no training (Gemma-4-E4B base), multimodal RLHF (Gemma-4-E4B-it), RL distillation (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B), and SFT (Qwen2.
arXiv:2607. 14306v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we study the connection between an LLM's output distribution and the data used to train it.
arXiv:2606. 04752v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers consuming multi-channel scalar signals must embed $C$ simultaneous values into one $d_{\text{model}}$-dimensional vector per time step.
arXiv:2606. 00995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Subliminal learning refers to a student language model acquiring a teacher's traits (e.
arXiv:2607. 15450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-distillation (SD) is typically studied when the student is retrained on the teacher's original training inputs.
arXiv:2606. 01292v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Teacher-Student Knowledge Transfer (KT) is ubiquitous in modern machine learning, ranging from classical model compression via Knowledge Distillation (KD) to the emergent phenomenon of Weak-to-Strong (W2S) generalization.