https://nalar.dev/tags/knowledge-distillation/ Recent content in Knowledge Distillation on Nalar Hugo en-us Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/compress-classifiers-with-knowledge-distillation/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/compress-classifiers-with-knowledge-distillation/ <p>A model can be accurate enough for a product and still be too expensive to deploy. A large classifier may exceed a mobile memory budget, miss a latency target, or cost too much when every request requires substantial compute. Replacing it with a smaller model reduces those costs, but training the smaller model only from ground-truth labels can leave useful information behind.</p> <p><strong>Knowledge distillation</strong> addresses this problem by training a smaller <strong>student</strong> model to learn from a stronger <strong>teacher</strong> model. Instead of seeing only the correct class, the student can also learn how the teacher distributes its confidence across the alternatives.</p>