Virtuoso Lite Virtuoso Medium V2 Distilling Deepseek V3 Into 10b 32b Small Language Models Slms
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
distillation — Training a small, cheap model to imitate a big one's outputs, keeping much of the capability at a fraction of the cost.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Why it matters
Logit-level distillationTraining a small, cheap model to imitate a big one's outputs, keeping much of the capability at a fraction of the cost.Full definition → across mismatched tokenizers is unusual, and it produced a permissively licensed 10B that holds its own against a 32B, which changes what fits on modest hardware.
