@ben_burtenshaw: before model distillation was an attack vector. it was. pretty handy way of improving model performance on a task you c…
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Ben Burtenshaw announces a live stream on July 7th covering knowledge distillation in post-training, showing how to implement it using small models to approach large model performance.
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before model distillation was an attack vector. it was. pretty handy way of improving model performance on a task you care about.
especially if you want to take small, local, or cheap model and improve it on a tasks typically reserved to large models.
in the next live stream, we’re going to break down knowledge distillation in post-training and show you how to implement it.
going out next week: July 7th 8am PST, 5pm CEST live on: @huggingface X, YT, LI
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