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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 by DoctorOetker on Thursday May 28, 2026 @10:23PM (#48318247)
One may view pre-training as distillation.

The teacher distillation is a corpus of text, and the "next token after the context" would be looking-up the context in the corpus, and for each occurrence the label is what followed in the corpus, scaled down by the number of occurrences of the context. The teacher is moot on contexts outside of the corpus though, unlike the usual teacher model in distillation.

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