When Less Data Favors Smaller Teachers: Rethinking Teacher Capacity and Data Selection for Knowledge Distillation

arXiv:2609.34489 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

Sources

• Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
• DINOv3
• A Survey on Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Faster Segment Anything: Towards Lightweight SAM for Mobile Applications

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