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Compress large language models using knowledge distillation from teacher to student models. Use when deploying smaller models with retained performance, transferring GPT-4 capabilities to open-source models, or reducing inference costs. Covers temperature scaling, soft targets, reverse KLD, logit distillation, and MiniLLM training strategies.

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# Knowledge Distillation: Compressing LLMs

## When to Use This Skill

Use Knowledge Distillation when you need to:
- **Compress models** from 70B → 7B while retaining 90%+ performance
- **Transfer capabilities** from proprietary models (GPT-4) to open-source (LLaMA, Mistral)
- **Reduce inference costs** by deploying smaller student models
- **Create specialized models** by distilling domain-specific knowledge
- **Improve small models** using synthetic data from large teachers

**Key Techniques**: Temperature scaling, soft targets, reverse KLD (MiniLLM), logit distillation, response distillation

**Papers**: Hinton et al. 2015 (arXiv 1503.02531), MiniLLM (arXiv 2306.08543), KD Survey (arXiv 2402.13116)