to distill
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- verb
- /dɪˈstɪl/
- Specialized
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- By distilling the large dataset's insights, they were able to train a faster model that closely mimicked the original's performance.
- distill the essence
Examples
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If you disagree, can you try to distill your theory into some practical advice for writers?
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So that's our attempt to distill this process down to four simple questions.
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The whole purpose of video is to compress time and distill a message to its essence.
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Begin the process by distilling your idea into its purest form.
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This blog distills some of the technical details in the study for readers interested in the underlying analysis and its assumptions.
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Some of us, like Amanda, aren't necessarily seeing farther, but *are* distilling information into a simpler, more easily digestible form for the white folks who might be new to this, and that is good work.
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Dunifon also makes summaries of her research available to extension staff at fact sheets such as Poverty and Economic Hardship in New York; she distills the existing research and highlights aspects that are important to those working with child and family policy.
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In the field of machine learning, researchers often distill the knowledge from a complex model into a simpler one for efficiency.
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The team worked hard to distill the teacher's extensive knowledge into a format that the student model could easily learn.
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Etymology
Distill is also used in machine learning to mean taking the most important knowledge from a large model and putting it into a smaller one, and this keeps the same image as the Latin distillare 'to drip down', because you are letting the 'best parts' drip into the small model. That's why to distill knowledge is to take out and keep the essential ideas of the bigger model.