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Compare distillation recipes for LLMs: hard-label SFT, on-policy logit matching, and rejection sampling.

Distillation is not one method. The signal is knowing when to match logits versus train on generated text, why on-policy distillation beats off-policy, and how reasoning models are distilled.

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Distillation is not one method. The signal is knowing when to match logits versus train on generated text, why on-policy distillation beats off-policy, and how reasoning models are distilled.

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