TraceForge: Distilling with Your Own Thinking

2026-10-21 · 0 次浏览 ·来源: HuggingFace Papers

Using an LLM to generate training data for another is among the most general ways to train one, and it remains common practice. Some frontier teams have closed that route for their own models: what comes back is an answer, or a short summary, without the detailed reasoning trace behind it. That is a little ironic: they were themselves built on distilling human knowledge, and distilling an open-source model is still entirely routine; the restriction applies to their own outputs alone....

Using an LLM to generate training data for another is among the most general ways to train one, and it remains common practice. Some frontier teams have closed that route for their own models: what comes back is an answer, or a short summary, without the detailed reasoning trace behind it. That is a little ironic: they were themselves built on distilling human knowledge, and distilling an open-source model is still entirely routine; the restriction applies to their own outputs alone....

Using an LLM to generate training data for another is among the most general ways to train one, and it remains common practice. Some frontier teams have closed that route for their own models: what comes back is an answer, or a short summary, without the detailed reasoning trace behind it. That is a little ironic: they were themselves built on distilling human knowledge, and distilling an open-source model is still entirely routine; the restriction applies to their own outputs alone....