America’s first Distillation Summit will cover RL, agents, IP and national security
AkshatS07 · x · 2026-07-23
A post announces America’s first Distillation Summit, a half-day event focused on the state of the art in model distillation.
The agenda includes talks on:
- whether distillation is enough, and what architecture or RL adds beyond copying
- the mechanics of on-policy distillation
- adversarial distillation, IP, and national security
- open-weight vs. closed frontier labs
- scaling distillation to agents and long-horizon tasks
- self-distillation and self-improvement
- ethics of distillation
The organizer says researchers, government officials, founders, and executives are expected to gather, followed by whiskey tasting.
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