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by adgjlsfhk1 25 days ago
Distilling from a larger model is not only probably cheaper than from data, it's also likely higher quality. There's pretty strong support for the proposition that NNs learn a smoothed and regularized version of the data. The NNs are likely higher quality than most of the data they are training from.
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This guy or gal or person gets it.