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> Proper distillation requires access to the logits

Why do you need logits? Can't you just train on cross-entropy loss of the model against the hard decision, like you do in regular pretraining?

There are definitely current-gen open-weight models (Step 3.7 Flash is one) that refer to themselves as an OpenAI model in CoT, but not in the final response.



How do I get that loss, though, without the softmax inputs?


Do they have logits for all of the Wikipedia etc that they've scraped?




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