Lab experiment, Jul 2025

Knowledge distillation and fine-tuning

70B → 3B student

Controlled evaluation

5…Bb6 +0.27

5…Bb6

+0.27, the engine’s eval after 5…Bb6. The seam rests there.

Result and evidence

  • 70B → 3B studentControlled evaluationNo speed-up claimed.

What was built

  1. A 70B teacher distilled into a 3B student using QLoRA, DeepSpeed and FlashAttention.
Limitations
No speed-up is claimed, because tokens/second, hardware and batch size were not measured.

PyTorch · QLoRA · DeepSpeed · FlashAttention

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