Schmidhuber says neural-network distillation was published in 1991
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-07-23
Jürgen Schmidhuber argues that neural-network distillation was already published in 1991, and that later work merely repackaged the idea.
He frames the discussion by pointing to a 2025 DeepSeek-related debate about who invented distillation, then says the original paper described a general teacher-student compression principle: a student network can learn by imitating a teacher’s behavior, thereby compressing knowledge into a smaller model.
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