Black-box LLM distillation with GAD
An article dated September 13, 2026 presents an on-policy method for distilling models using only the text outputs of a proprietary teacher.
Source: GAD para destilação on-policy de LLMs black-box (arxiv.org). Text prepared with AI from this source.
What happened and what to do
The article, dated September 13, 2026, presents Generative Adversarial Distillation (GAD), an on-policy, black-box method for distilling language models. It uses only the text outputs of a proprietary teacher: a discriminator distinguishes student responses from teacher responses in a minimax game. Distillation therefore does not require access to the teacher’s logits or parameters.
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