arxiv:2606.27396
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Building the AI-native stack. Agents as infrastructure, safety as architecture, performance as plumbing. I publish the receipts: papers, datasets, demos.
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repliedto sergiopaniego's post about 4 hours ago
Frontier models use distillation as a step of their post-training pipelines.
In 2026 it has three jobs: compress a big model into a small one, merge RL experts into a single model, and let a model teach itself.
I wrote up which frontier models use each one and how: https://huggingface.co/blog/sergiopaniego/distillation-2026
It pairs with Class 2 of the Training an Agent series Ben and I are doing, where we teach these techniques hands-on with TRL! reacted to sergiopaniego's post with 🔥 about 4 hours ago
Frontier models use distillation as a step of their post-training pipelines.
In 2026 it has three jobs: compress a big model into a small one, merge RL experts into a single model, and let a model teach itself.
I wrote up which frontier models use each one and how: https://huggingface.co/blog/sergiopaniego/distillation-2026
It pairs with Class 2 of the Training an Agent series Ben and I are doing, where we teach these techniques hands-on with TRL! upvoted a paper about 4 hours ago
SWE-Review: Closing the Loop on Issue Resolution with Agentic Code ReviewOrganizations
