Evolving Knowledge Distillation with Large Language Models and Active Learning (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have focused on the direct use of large language models for text generation and labeling, without fully exploring their potential to comprehend the target task and acquire valuable knowledge. |
| Approach: | They propose to distill the knowledge of large language models into smaller models by generating annotated data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the performance of small domain models while enhancing the ability of large language models. |
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