What Survives Distillation? A Mechanistic Interpretability Study of GPT-2 and DistilGPT-2

arXiv:2610.37157 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-10-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-27

Updated: 2026-10-27

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Mechanistic Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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