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Covert Trait Propagation Is Representation Alignment: Mechanistic Evidence from Hidden-Channel Distillation

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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.

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Reference-Based Distillation Detection in LLMs

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.

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