AI Reports · Amazon · 2026-11-02 · Blog / commentary
Build efficient agents with knowledge distillation on Amazon SageMaker AI
This post explains how to use sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD) on Amazon SageMaker AI to transfer a frontier teacher model's agentic behavior into a smaller, lower-cost student model. The workflow generates multi-step trajectories with the teacher, keeps those that solve the task, and fine-tunes the student on them. It also covers serverless training and evaluation against a held-out benchmark.