Core Concepts
Mutual information maximization enhances CoT distillation for improved reasoning in smaller models.
Abstract
Knowledge distillation transfers knowledge from large to small models efficiently.
Distilling Step-by-Step (DSS) method improves reasoning in smaller models.
Proposed method maximizes mutual information for better CoT distillation.
Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Ethical considerations and limitations are discussed.
Stats
"Our method outperforms DSS on ANLI, CQA, and SVAMP."
"Our method achieves an ECE of 4.35 in e-SNLI, significantly lower than DSS’s 8.54."
Quotes
"Our findings offer insightful guidance for future research on language model distillation."
"Our methodology demonstrably outperforms existing benchmarks across multiple datasets."