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Knowledge Distillation
Distillation trains a small student model to mimic a large teacher, learning from the teacher's full output distribution rather than just hard labels. The soft targets carry extra signal about how the teacher 'thinks', so the student keeps much of the quality at a fraction of the size and latency. Knowing when distillation beats quantization or pruning is standard FDE ground when you have a latency or cost budget to hit.
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