New Blog Breaks Black-Box Distillation Into Five Practical Steps
chrisrohlf · x · 2026-10-26
A retweeted post introduces a new blog that reviews the published literature and breaks black-box distillation into five steps:
- Define the distillation objective and select student and teacher models.
- Collect seed data to feed into the teacher.
- Steer the teacher toward the desired outputs.
- Elicit synthetic data from the steered teacher by prompting it with seed data.
- Train the student on the synthetic data using various techniques.
The post only outlines the framework; details live in the blog itself.
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