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Zhe Zhao

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Smaller Models, Better Rejects: Preference Distillation Scaling

Rui Cai, Wenhui Zhu, Xiwen Chen et al. · 2026

Preference distillation typically treats a teacher response as preferred and the student's own response as rejected. This assumes that self-generated failures are the most informative negatives and that rejects must come from a model at least as large as the student, making generation costly at scale. We find neither a …

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