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Current distillation research supports the general engineering premise that capable teachers are compressed into smaller deployment models to meet latency, memory, and cost constraints; it does not prove the specific 100,000-GPU/Astra architecture or that every frontier lab uses this exact arrangement. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Efficient Knowledge Distillation for LLMs: Offline Top-K Logits and a Fused Chunked KL Loss · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:827317f6619a240da0c9fd8983972ec24982b18641deb38dae1465b65057fee5

Small language models are often the only option for deployment under tight latency, cost, and on-premises constraints, but they are rarely trained from scratch: a compressed model is usually recovered through knowledge distillation. ... Offline distillation ... removes the teacher from memory ... runs about 29% faster per iteration, and reaches up to 41% higher throughput on a single H200 GPU.