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Collaborative Distillation Strategies for Parameter-Efficient Language Model Deployment

arXiv 2507.15198 ↗First posted 21 Jul 2025cs.CLcited by 5

On the map: Knowledge distillation → Knowledge distillation for LLMs

Abstract (arXiv)

This paper addresses the challenges of high computational cost and slow inference in deploying large language models. It proposes a distillation strategy guided by multiple teacher models. The method constructs several teacher models and integrates their output probability distributions and intermediate semantic features. This guides the student model to learn from multiple sources of knowledge. As a result, the student model gains stronger language understanding and generation ability while maintaining a small parameter size. To achieve this, the paper introduces a weighted output fusion mechanism, a feature alignment loss function, and an entropy-driven dynamic teacher weighting strategy. These components improve the quality and stability of knowledge transfer during distillation. Under multi-teacher guidance, the student model captures semantic information more effectively and demonstrates strong performance across multiple evaluation metrics. In particular, the method shows high consistency in expression, generalization ability, and task adaptability in tasks such as language modeling, text generation, and multi-task learning. The experiments compare the proposed method with several widely adopted distillation approaches. The results further confirm its overall advantages in perplexity, distillation loss, and generation quality. This study provides a feasible technical path for the efficient compression of large-scale language models. It also demonstrates the effectiveness of multi-teacher collaborative mechanisms in complex language modeling tasks.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Knowledge distillation for LLMs, one of 12 directions in Knowledge distillation. Builds on 13 of its 24 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 21 Jul 2025.

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  1. 2024DDK: Distilling Domain Knowledge for Efficient Large Language Models23 Jul
  2. 2024Compact Language Models via Pruning and Knowledge Distillation19 Jul
  3. 2024Survey on Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models: Methods, Evaluation, and Application2 Jul
  4. 2024A Survey on Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models20 Feb

Other references · 9

  1. 2020MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformerscited by 1,463
  2. 2019TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understandingcited by 1,167
  3. 2020MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devicescited by 482
  4. 2022Decoupled Knowledge Distillationcited by 388
  5. 2021Dynamic Knowledge Distillation for Pre-trained Language Modelscited by 38
  6. 2025Structured Memory Mechanisms for Stable Context Representation in Large Language Modelscited by 9
  7. 2025Context-Guided Dynamic Retrieval for Improving Generation Quality in RAG Modelscited by 8
  8. 2025Graph-Based Spectral Decomposition for Parameter Coordination in Language Model Fine-Tuningcited by 5
  9. 2025Structured Gradient Guidance for Few-Shot Adaptation in Large Language Modelscited by 3

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  1. 2024Feature Alignment-Based Knowledge Distillation for Efficient Compression of Large Language Models
  2. 2024DistiLLM: Towards Streamlined Distillation for Large Language Models
  3. 2023Can a student Large Language Model perform as well as it's teacher?
  4. 2024Enhancing Knowledge Distillation of Large Language Models through Efficient Multi-Modal Distribution Alignment
  5. 2025TAID: Temporally Adaptive Interpolated Distillation for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Language Models
  6. 2026EGAD: Entropy-Guided Adaptive Distillation for Token-Level Knowledge Transfer
  7. 2025Knowledge Distillation and Dataset Distillation of Large Language Models: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions
  8. 2026Curriculum Learning-Guided Progressive Distillation in Large Language Models