Study: Distilling to Similar Architectures Outperforms Different Ones
SonglinYang4 · x · 2026-09-01
A cited research finding indicates that distilling a model into an architecture very close to the teacher model performs much better than distilling into a significantly different one. This suggests that retaining structural features may benefit knowledge transfer.
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