Records of the !mmortal Data Scientist · Jul 4, 2026
Distillation Is a Geometry, Not an Answer Key
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Knowledge distillation has a standing puzzle: Hinton's student recognized 98.6% of the digit 3s in the test set after training on a transfer set with every 3 deleted. An answer key cannot do that, so what actually crosses the wire? This post gives dark knowledge a data type, a class-similarity kernel, and runs the experiment that isolates it: a student trained on nothing but pairwise relations, no…
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