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Description
This pull request significantly updates and modernizes the knowledge distillation tutorial for MaxText, aligning it with current best practices and tooling. The guide now uses Qwen3-32B as the teacher model (via vLLM) and Llama-3.1-8B as the student, streamlines the setup with Hyperdisk storage, and provides new scripts and commands for dataset generation and fine-tuning. The instructions have been clarified, unnecessary conversion steps removed for the teacher, and the fine-tuning process updated for the latest MaxText and vLLM workflows.
Tests
Manually triggered the distillation pipeline and monitored the execution flow step-by-step. Confirmed that the training loop finished and resources were released.

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