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World Congress 2025 β€’ Aug 20, 2025 β€’ Session details

distil labs – small model training, made simple

Selim Nowicki

Upgrading vanilla small models used to require specialized machine learning scientists and expensive infrastructure. Now, standard engineering teams can train highly accurate, on-premise expert models in just eight hours.

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Training small AI models on secure private data

Alexandre Guenoun Alexandre Guenoun +3 Β· World Congress 2026 Europe

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Distilling cloud AI capabilities into local device models

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Achieving high inference performance in smaller model sizes

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Creating a repeatable distillation process for small language models

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Reducing model size using knowledge distillation with teacher-student models

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