Masked Distillation is claimed to eliminate LLM thinking-token latency on particular distributions

A September 16 post claims that over-training with Masked Distillation can eliminate delays caused by generating intermediate “thinking” tokens on particular distributions. The author presents it as a technique from their own work. In a July 30 post, the same author questioned research that equates shorter average intermediate-token output with improved efficiency, and described work investigating those claims through Masked Distillation.