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December 3, 2024

Differences and Comparison Between KL Divergence and Cross Entropy

Last Updated on 2024-12-03 by Clay

Introduction

Recently, while implementing the paper Kangaroo: Lossless Self-Speculative Decoding via Double Early Exiting, I encountered a question about its use of Cross Entropy Loss to align the probability distributions of the draft model and the target model. Why not use KL Divergence instead?

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