Hybrid Policy Distillation for LLMs
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arXiv:2604.20244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime. We break down the design of existing KD methods and present a unified view that establishes connections between them, reformulating KD as a reweighted log-likelihood objective at the token level. We further propose Hybrid Policy Distillation (HPD), which integrates the complementary advantages of forward and reverse KL to balan
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2604.20244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime.
- We break down the design of existing KD methods and present a unified view that establishes connections between them, reformulating KD as a reweighted log-likelihood objective at the token level.
- We further propose Hybrid Policy Distillation (HPD), which integrates the complementary advantages of forward and reverse KL to balan
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