Sepehr Sameni 9392dfeabf Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987) ...

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Added notes highlighting Blockwise Local Distillation as a promising
future improvement.
  * Documented plans for an improved bypass feature in a future release.

* **Changes**
* Removed the bypass-distillation workflow and related configuration
options.
* Updated pruning and replacement-library behavior to operate without
bypass settings.
* Improved Hydra run logs by directing them to timestamped output
directories where configured.

* **Cleanup**
* Removed obsolete bypass-distillation utilities, exports, and
associated tests.

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Signed-off-by: Sepehr Sameni <ssameni@nvidia.com>

2026-07-17 19:00:57 +00:00

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gptoss-20b_remove_experts_memory

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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llama-3_1-8B_pruneffn_memory

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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llama-3_1-8B_pruneffn_runtime

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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llama-3_2-3B_pruneffn_memory

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501_pruneffn_memory

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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nemotron-nano-12b-v2

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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nemotron-nano-30b-A3b-v3

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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qwen2_5_7b_instruct_pruneffn_memory

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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qwen3-8b_pruneffn_memory

Remove Puzzletron bypass distillation (#1987)

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