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PublishedAugust 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Below the Noise Floor: Bimodal Seed Collapse and Distinct Failure Modes in Small-Model Knowledge Distillation
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arXiv:2608.27729v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Function routing -- selecting the correct API call from a fixed catalog given a natural-language request -- is a deployment problem where small students are attractive but knowledge distillation gains are typically reported single-seed, at scales where
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