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AI knowledge distillation

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What experts have said about AI knowledge distillation

4 statements · 2 positive · 1 negative · 1 neutral

  1. John SchulmanPositiveSep 11, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Model distillation counteracts centralization among model providers.

    “distillation is the main thing that fights against the centralizing force”

    Listen at 18:55

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  2. John SchulmanNegativeSep 11, 2026· Dwarkesh Podcast

    Distillation using only verifiable tasks can match benchmarks while underperforming on realistic tasks.

    “if you only have this distribution of easily verifiable tasks, then you can match the big model on all the benchmarks, but you do worse on this broader distribution”

    Listen at 26:56

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  3. Hiding model reasoning can hinder but cannot eliminate capability distillation.

    “you can kind of restrict the visible reasoning and hide it a bit to make distillation harder, but you can't eliminate it”

    Listen at 1:51:02

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