Reference-Based Distillation Detection in LLMs
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arXiv:2607.09692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model distillation -- training on outputs from stronger third-party models -- is widely used to boost performance, but raises concerns about unfair advantages and policy violations. This motivates a fundamental question: can we detect whether a model was distilled from another? We show that, while identifying a teacher model from a student in isolation is highly challenging, it becomes tractable in a reference-based setting: given a model and an…
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- arXiv:2607.09692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model distillation -- training on outputs from stronger third-party models -- is widely used to boost performance, but raises concerns about unfair advantages and policy violations.
- This motivates a fundamental question: can we detect whether a model was distilled from another?
- We show that, while identifying a teacher model from a student in isolation is highly challenging, it becomes tractable in a reference-based setting: given a model and an….
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