Prehistory — From Neural Networks to the TransformerGeoffrey Hinton, Oriol Vinyals, Jeff Dean (Google)Geoffrey HintonOriol VinyalsJeff DeanGoogle
Google publishes Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network on arXiv
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Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network released on arXiv
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Formalized distillation, which transfers a large model's knowledge to a small model. The root of today's small-model lineage
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