Findings
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[1] 2026-09-08 The Sequence Knowledge – 928: The Missing 5%: Why Distillation Is Harder Than It Looks
A model release arrives with an irresistible claim: a 7-billion-parameter student retains 95 percent of the performance of a 70-billion-parameter teacher.This sounds like one of the best trades in computing. Ten times smaller. Nearly as intelligent. Put it on a laptop, inside an agent loop, or behind an API with much better margins.But where did the missing 5 percent go?Perhaps…
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