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Model Distillation
Data · 2 Mar 2025, 15:23 · 1

1. Can we use any open-source LLM as a teacher model to train a student model?

2. Can we use any student model or are there any limitations on that?

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My understanding from conversations in Zindi and Discord is we are free to use any teacher model, synthetic data, etc that we wish with the main caveats being:

- Results must be reproducible

- Only one model (not separate models for each task)

- InkubaLM must be used as the model your work is based on. So you would have to use InkubaLM or a pruned version of InkubaLM as your student model.

2 Mar 2025, 16:14
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