Topology-Aware Knowledge Distillation from Qwen3-30B-A3B → 1.7B TopologicalQwen is a 1.7B parameter model distilled from Qwen3-30B-A3B using Topological Knowledge Distillation (TKD) — a methodology that treats the teacher's output distribution over a concatenated token stream as a bounded variation (BV) function and decomposes knowledge transfer into three channels via the Mesh Fundamental Identity: 1. Smooth distillation (AC component) — Standard KL divergence over regions where the teacher's distribution varies continuously. This is what every other KD method does and stops at. 2. Jump corrections (D^j f) — Explicit correction terms at conceptual boundaries where the teacher's…
