Why it matters

Distillation data enables small models. Understanding shapes strategy.

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The architecture

Teacher LLM generates responses / reasoning.

Student LLM trains via SFT + distillation loss.

Distillation data flowTeacher LLMgenerate + scoreDistillation datasetprompts + responsesStudent SFT + distillsmaller modelNemotron + Phi + Alpaca + Vicuna + WizardLM all use distillation-style data
Distillation data.
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How it works end to end

Response generation + optional reasoning.

Soft target logits when available.

Domain coverage.