Locking Pretrained Weights via Deep Low-Rank Residual Distillation

Apple Machine Learning Research reports: Locking Pretrained Weights via Deep Low-Rank Residual Distillation. The quality of open-weight language models has dramatically improved in recent years. Sharing weights greatly facilitates model adoption by enabling their use across diverse hardware and software platforms. They also allow for more open research and testing, to the extent that users can use them as checkpoints,…

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