Your Distilled Model Performs Worse Than the Teacher
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You set up a distillation pipeline. The teacher is a strong frontier model. The student is smaller, cheaper to run. You train, evaluate, and the student scores lower than the teacher on every metric. This is the most common failure in distillation, and it is not obvious why it happens. What You Wil…
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- 2026-09-14 01:17 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Your Distilled Model Performs Worse Than the Teacher