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3 Techniques to Train an LLM Using Another LLM (Distillation)
Soft-label, hard-label, and co-distillation — the three ways real production LLMs (Llama 4, Gemma, DeepSeek) train a smaller student model using a larger teacher.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain the difference between pre-training-stage and post-training-stage distillation
- •Contrast soft-label distillation's memory cost problem with hard-label distillation's fix
- •Explain co-distillation's simultaneous teacher-student training process
- •Name real production models trained with each distillation technique
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