Preserving rare-item recall under a storage budget: quantization, distillation, and the limits of teacher fidelity

arXiv:2610.36267 · cs.IR · Submitted 2026-10-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-26

Updated: 2026-10-26

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes

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