What Is Model Distillation? How Smaller AI Models Learn

Learn more about Knowledge Distillation here → https://ibm.biz/~9OAE6ZHmW Small AI models can learn from much larger ones. Aadam Mulla explains model distillation, where student models learn from a teacher’s soft labels and dark knowledge. Learn how distillation balances AI capability, speed, cost, and deployment. 00:00 – Understand What Model Distillation Does 00:36 – See Why Smaller AI Models Matter 01:15 – Connect Model Parameters to Memory and Speed 02:24 – Meet the Teacher and Student AI Models 02:50 – See How LLMs Predict the Next Token 04:59 – Train the Teacher Model with Hard Labels 07:26 – Train the Student with Soft Labels 09:12 – Understand Why Soft Labels Teach More 10:04 – Explore Dark Knowledge in Model Distillation 12:09 – Balance AI Capability with Model Efficiency AI news moves fast. Sign up for a monthly newsletter for AI updates from IBM → https://ibm.biz/~xkl5jbfCz AI was used in the creation of the transcript and metadata for this video. #aimodels #llm #machinelearning #aiengineering --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Find us on YouTube: 🔵 IBM Technology: https://www.youtube.com/@IBMTechnology 🔵 IBM: https://www.youtube.com/@IBM 🔵 IBM Developer: https://youtube.com/@IBMDeveloperAdvocates