Alibaba Cloud Big Data AI Platform

May 28, 2025 · Artificial Intelligence

How EasyDistill Simplifies LLM Knowledge Distillation for Faster, Smaller Models

EasyDistill, an open‑source toolkit from Alibaba Cloud AI Platform, streamlines knowledge distillation of large language models by offering modular data synthesis, black‑box and white‑box training, reinforcement‑learning and preference‑optimization techniques, enabling the creation of compact, high‑performance DistilQwen models and accompanying datasets.