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AI terms starting with D

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1 term under D · edited by Derek Wonk · last updated September 2026

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AI terms starting with D

distillation Training a smaller student model to imitate a larger teacher's outputs, so the student keeps most of the behaviour at a fraction of the inference cost. Supervision comes from a model, not labels.