AI community: 'Distillation' overloaded, now refers to any use of model data to train another model
tarantulae · x · 2026-07-23
In a discussion about whether distillation requires logits, a user notes that 'distillation' is now overloaded, often referring to 'any use of any data produced by any model to teach another model.' This reflects the term's dilution in the community.
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