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Technology & AIJul 3, 2026

Teacher Supervision over Representation Equivalence Classes

Knowledge distillation is usually framed as a choice of what to match in the teacher - its logits, hidden features, or sample relations - which presupposes that the teacher's representation has absolute coordinates to match.

Knowledge distillation is usually framed as a choice of what to match in the teacher - its logits, hidden features, or sample relations - which presupposes that the teacher's representation has absolute coordinates to match. It does not: a pretrained representation is…

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