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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational9 October 2026

The Distillation Game: Adaptive Evaluations & Efficient Defenses

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arXiv:2605.22737v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distillation attacks create a deployment trade-off for model providers: the same outputs that make a model more useful can also make it easier to imitate. We study this trade-off through a minimax game between a utility-constrained teacher and an adaptive student. Our framework yields tractable one-sided response rules: an adaptive evaluation rule in which the student reweights high-value examples, and a teacher-side defense template that suppresses outputs most useful for distillation. From a cheap proxy for example value, we derive Pr
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