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Interpreting KL Divergence Loss in Knowledge Distillation
During the training of a student model using knowledge distillation, an engineer observes that the KL divergence loss, calculated as KL(P_teacher || P_student), remains consistently high and does not decrease over many training epochs. What does this observation imply about the student model's learning process and its ability to mimic the teacher model? Explain your reasoning.
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