Dr. Lena Kowalczyk

Data-Efficient Distillation from Mixture-of-Experts Teachers

September 16, 2026 09:00 · Aurora Hall

Compressing a sparse expert model into a dense student without losing calibration.
Scalable Oversight via Debate and Recursive Reward Models

September 16, 2026 14:00 · Aurora Hall

Supervising models on tasks where humans can no longer check the answer directly.

Lena Kowalczyk is an assistant professor at Aperture University working on model distillation and oversight. She is interested in how smaller models can inherit not just the accuracy but the calibration of their teachers.

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Data-Efficient Distillation from Mixture-of-Experts Teachers

Scalable Oversight via Debate and Recursive Reward Models