Information is information. Why is some information considered different than others in your estimation?
reply> Information is information
replyNot really, what the information actually is, matters a great deal. It's harder to get good results going from "nothing > model+weights" than "nothing + traces from known good sessions of other good model > model+weights", this is what the "distillation" part is referring to. If "information is information", you wouldn't even need to separate good from bad sessions while doing the training, which leads to somewhat obvious results if you don't.
Can you be more specific? I have no idea what you are trying to say.
replyTo succinctly restate my point, you cannot distill a model from information because the model is not contained within that information. You can distill a model from another model.
Their point is that "training" and "distillation" are essentially the same. The difference between the words is whether the source material is output from another model, vs being some original text.
replyThat argument is moot as distillation also requires a lot of hardware and software, if copying models was as easy as that, we would have hundreds of competing models.
replyNo. Building models and distilling models both require the hardware and software. It doesn't mean building models is distillation.
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