A Distillation Primer: Why Banning It Won't Halt Chinese LLMs
peterjliu · x · 2026-07-24
The article explores model distillation, a technique used to transfer knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. This comes amid recent accusations that Moonshot's Kimi3 was partially distilled.
The author argues that banning distillation would not halt the progress of Chinese LLMs, explaining the two main types of distillation and how they function mechanically.
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