Google AI has detailed its technical approach for enabling real-time generative AI effects on YouTube Shorts for mobile devices. The system utilizes knowledge distillation to transfer capabilities from large, complex models to smaller, efficient ones that can run locally. This process involves meticulous data curation, including diverse datasets to ensure equitable performance, and a teacher-student model training methodology. The resulting compact models, optimized with tools like MediaPipe, power over 20 distinct real-time effects for creators. AI
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