Distillation Scaling Laws

The paper focuses on creating smaller, more efficient language models through knowledge distillation. The research provides a 'distillation scaling law' that helps estimate student model performance based on teacher performance, student size, and distillation data amount.

The key takeaways for engineers/specialists include using the distillation scaling law for resource allocation decisions, understanding the importance of compute and data requirements, and resorting to supervised learning only when a well-designed plan for the teacher model is unavailable to avoid additional costs.

Read full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08606

Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing