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The initial Superior Model Training, the massive training run of the largest possible "Teacher" model, often conducted in highly secure, isolated (air-gapped) data centers.
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The "superior model" is then used to generate a vast amount of high-quality synthetic data
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This is known as inference at scale on the teacher model. While inference is less power-intensive than training, performing it for billions of data points to create a distillation dataset adds substantial, often unquantified, operational energy usage.
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### 5.8 Technical benchmarks
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Many niche models possess unique value but are discarded because they fail to top general technical benchmarks. Researchers often evaluate dozens of models rapidly; if a model does not impress immediately
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This turns the entire training process into an environmental tragedy, wasting the vast amounts of energy and water used to create a tool that no one will ever use.
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The initial Superior Model Training, the massive training run of the largest possible "Teacher" model, often conducted in highly secure, isolated (air-gapped) data centers.
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The "superior model" is then used to generate a vast amount of high-quality synthetic data, the "content", which serves as the training dataset for the smaller model.
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This is known as inference at scale on the teacher model. While inference is less power-intensive than training, performing it for billions of data points to create a distillation dataset adds substantial, often unquantified, operational energy usage.
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Many niche models possess unique value but are discarded because they fail to top general technical benchmarks. Researchers often evaluate dozens of models rapidly; if a model does not impress immediately, sometimes due merely to faulty inference code rather than the model itself, it is permanently set aside. This premature abandonment represents a significant sunk cost, rendering the substantial water consumption and carbon emissions expended during training completely wasted.
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This turns the entire training process into an environmental tragedy, wasting the vast amounts of energy and water used to create a tool that no one will ever use.
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