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Research & Publications

We publish open technical reports, distillation methodologies, and evaluation harnesses alongside our datasets and weights. All benchmark harnesses and calibration scripts are reproducible.

DistillationResearch Technical Report

Asymmetric Key-Value Quantization: 2-Bit Values and 4-Bit Keys under Long-Context Drift

Solstice-AI Research Team

Empirical analysis proving Value vectors tolerate higher quantization noise than Query/Key vectors, unlocking asymmetric 3-bit cache configurations that achieve 9x compression with <0.5% perplexity degradation across 262k-token contexts.

9x (3.3 bits avg)Asymmetric Compression
<0.5%Perplexity Loss
Position-AdaptiveDrift Compensation
DistillationResearch Technical Report

Cross-Architecture Divergence: Mitigating Single-Teacher Bias via Latent Ensembles

Solstice-AI Research Team

An empirical investigation demonstrating that single-teacher distillation creates systemic reasoning blind spots in sub-8B student models, and that multi-teacher consensus loss across 7+ model families eliminates stylistic over-fitting while preserving cross-domain generalization.

94.7%Accuracy Recovery
23.4%Blind Spot Reduction
-61%Attention Variance
DistillationResearch Technical Report

Gradient Alignment in Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for Sub-8B Reasoning

Solstice-AI Research Team

A dynamic gradient weighting framework that resolves conflicting logits across diverse teacher architectures during student fine-tuning, achieving 12.3% accuracy improvement on reasoning benchmarks through gradient-space consensus.

87.3%Conflict Resolution
96.1%Signal Preservation
+12.3%Accuracy Gain
DistillationResearch Technical Report

Semantic Sieve: Exact N-Gram and Embedding Deduplication at Petabyte Scale

Solstice-AI Research Team

Algorithmic framework combining MinHash LSH and exact SHA256 hashing to eliminate 20%+ synthetic redundancy in massive conversational corpora, with embedding-based semantic clustering for near-duplicate detection at trillion-token scale.

23.7%Redundancy Removed
847xSpeedup
-31%Training Time
VerificationResearch Technical Report

Teacher Dropout: Stochastic Model Selection for Robust Distilled Student Models

Solstice-AI Research Team

Randomly masking teacher outputs during multi-teacher distillation training forces the student model to learn invariant underlying logical structures rather than mimicking one teacher's surface tokens, improving out-of-distribution generalization by 18.6%.

+18.6%OOD Accuracy Gain
57%Compute Reduction
-43%Attention Variance