Distill AGENTS before You Quantize SAD (Harvard, MIT)
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The video discusses recent research on structured agent distillation for large language models (LLMs) by institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon University. It introduces a new framework aimed at compressing LLM-based agents to enable them to run on edge devices more efficiently. The framework segments agent trajectories into reasoning and action spans, utilizing separate loss functions for training to maintain reasoning fidelity and action consistency. The video also critiques the limitations of the research, including the need for further exploration of hyperparameters and the model’s adaptability to more complex scenarios. Ultimately, it highlights advancements in model compression techniques and their implications for deploying AI systems in various environments.