AWS releases a tutorial on distilling a shopping agent with SeqKD on SageMaker AI

On November 3, 2026, the official AWS Machine Learning blog published a tutorial on how to build an efficient shopping agent on Amazon SageMaker AI using sequence-level knowledge distillation (SeqKD). The tutorial uses GLM-5.3 on Amazon Bedrock as the teacher model to generate trajectories, uses the ShoppingBench scorer to retain only trajectories that solve the task, and then performs serverless SFT on the Qwen3.5-4B student model. On 324 held-out test questions, the average absolute success rate of the distilled 4B student rose from 0.297 to 0.541, essentially on par with the teacher model and mid-sized frontier models; when the teacher's reasoning process was removed and only tool calls were learned, the average success rate dropped to 0.415. The tutorial is now publicly available alongside the official blog post.

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   AWS publishes tutorial on distilling a shopping Agent with SeqKD on SageMaker AI

   Source:AWS Machine Learning