Schmidhuber Says Knowledge Distillation Was First Published in 1991
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-04
AI researcher Jürgen Schmidhuber clarifies that Knowledge Distillation is not a recent concept; its foundational work was actually published as early as 1991. He provides a link to the original paper as evidence to correct public misconceptions regarding the research's origins.
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