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Prediction-Only Distillation in Linear and Logistic Regression
Hien Dang, Pratik Patil, Alessandro Rinaldo
Self-distillation (SD) is typically studied when the student is retrained on the teacher's original training inputs. In many practical deployments, however, the labeled training da…
Optimal Self-Distillation for Rectified Flow via Linear Probing
Saptarshi Roy, Debepsita Mukherjee, Pratik Patil
Modern generative models are increasingly trained using model-generated signals, creating both opportunities for self-improvement and risks of collapse. We study optimal self-disti…
Evaluating Stochasticity in Deep Research Agents
Haotian Zhai, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Pratik Patil +1
Deep Research Agents (DRAs) are promising agentic systems that gather and synthesize information to support research across domains such as financial decision-making, medical analy…
Optimal Unconstrained Self-Distillation in Ridge Regression: Strict Improvements, Precise Asymptotics, and One-Shot Tuning
Hien Dang, Pratik Patil, Alessandro Rinaldo
Self-distillation (SD) is the process of retraining a student on a mixture of ground-truth labels and the teacher's own predictions using the same architecture and training data. A…