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AIHOT · Published on October 30, 2026 at 00:51

Amazon and Booking.com accelerate travel LLMs using knowledge distillation and Medusa

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Amazon and Booking.com combine knowledge distillation with Medusa to transfer capabilities from a 70B Llama-3.1 teacher model to a 1.1B TinyLlama student model, achieving the best open-source LLM quality while reducing costs to less than one-third and increasing speed by up to 20 times.

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