Meta's Switch Distillation: mid-training distillation boosts reasoning, keeps factual recall
meta · hf · 2026-09-03
- Meta proposed Switch Distillation, which selectively applies logit-based knowledge distillation during mid-training based on teacher confidence.
- The approach improves reasoning in distilled smaller language models while preserving factual recall, addressing the usual trade-off where distillation gains reasoning at the cost of facts.
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