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Diagnosing teacher drift in an INT4 CPU student

A smaller model can lower its training objective while drifting away from the model it was built to preserve. I found a concrete example while distilling a 12-block INT4 CPU model into eight blocks for a lossless compressor. The useful diagnostic was simple: split the loss, then measure which param…

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  1. 2026-11-07 13:09 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Diagnosing teacher drift in an INT4 CPU student

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