General Loss Function for Knowledge Distillation
The general loss function for knowledge distillation, often written as for simplicity, measures the discrepancy between a teacher and student model for a given input . The function is formally expressed as , where is the probability distribution of the pre-trained teacher model, and is the distribution of the student model with parameters . The training objective is to minimize this loss, thereby teaching the student to replicate the teacher's behavior.
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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models
Foundations of Large Language Models
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