AI RESEARCH
Apriel-H1: The Surprising Key to Distilling Efficient Reasoning Models
Hugging Face Blog
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What We Built The Non-Obvious Insight How to Apply It: Staged Distillation Making It Reproducible: Fast-LLM FAQs The Production Reality Takeaway Try It We converted our 15B reasoning model to a Mamba hybrid achieving 2.1x throughput with minimal quality loss. The key? A non-obvious insight about what data to distill on, and why intuition fails here.