Masked Distillation Framework Aims to Reduce LLM Inference Costs

Researchers introduced a "masked distillation" framework to internalize intermediate reasoning steps, reducing LLM inference costs. However, some argue these efficiency gains might simply be the result of over-training the base model on specific distributions.

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