https://nalar.dev/tags/model-optimization/ Recent content in Model Optimization on Nalar Hugo en-us Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/understand-knowledge-distillation-for-smaller-ai-models/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0700 https://nalar.dev/understand-knowledge-distillation-for-smaller-ai-models/ <p>A large model may produce useful predictions but still be too expensive or slow for the environment where it must run. A mobile application, an edge device, or a high-volume service can have tighter limits on memory, latency, and compute.</p> <p><strong>Knowledge distillation</strong> is one way to address that gap. Instead of training a smaller model only from the original labels, we also train it to imitate information produced by a stronger <strong>teacher</strong> model. The smaller model is called the <strong>student</strong>.</p>