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Which Skill to Distill? SGUID: Selecting a Compact Skill Bank for Model-Skill Co-Evolution
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- SGUID method selects which skills to distill into language models, finding that fewer than 25% of retrieved skills provide useful training signals.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers optimizing LLM training pipelines who use skill distillation to improve model performance on downstream tasks.
- Watch out
- Results shown on specific model families (Olmo, Qwen); generalization to other architectures and whether skill selection overhead justifies gains remains unclear.
- llm
- distill
- inference
The patterns behind this
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Evolutionary Discovery Algorithms
- Cost-Aware Model Selection
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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