A two-stage distillation recipe converts a Pythia-1B Transformer into a Mamba model that preserves performance with perplexity 14.11 versus the teacher's 13.86.
Relevant code for this error computation can be found in https://github.com/EleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harness
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Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation
A two-stage distillation recipe converts a Pythia-1B Transformer into a Mamba model that preserves performance with perplexity 14.11 versus the teacher's 13.86.