Knowledge Distillation During Mid-Training Favors Reasoning over Factual Recall
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Switch Distillation (SD, q=20%, tau=2) downstream evaluation performance after mid-training with OLMo-2 7B Instruct teacher, demonstrating substantial gains on reasoning while maintaining factual recall.

Source: source_paper:Table 1, Page 9

Reported and observed measurements

downstream_accuracy

t1_7b_sd_gsm8k

Reported 69.7 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_gsm_s

Reported 55.3 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_gsmplus

Reported 46.1 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_bbh

Reported 32.8 percentage_points

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downstream_accuracy

t1_7b_sd_drop

Reported 49.6 percentage_points

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downstream_accuracy

t1_7b_sd_math

Reported 14.8 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_tqa

Reported 54.9 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_nq

Reported 24.6 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_sqa

Reported 8.4 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_mmlu

Reported 51.6 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_mmlu_p

Reported 19.8 percentage_points

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downstream_accuracy

t1_7b_sd_arc_c

Reported 64.7 percentage_points

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downstream_accuracy

t1_7b_sd_obqa

Reported 64.2 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_wino

Reported 53.8 percentage_points

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t1_7b_sd_agi

Reported 41.5 percentage_points

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