In this work, we showthat this "lazy training" phenomenon isnot specific tooverparameterized neural networks, and is due to a choice of scaling, often implicit, that makes the model behave as its linearization around the initialization, thus yielding amodel equivalenttolearning withpositive-definite kernels.

The increasing volume of healthcare textual data requires computationally efficient, yet highly accurate classification approaches able to handle the nuanced and complex nature of medical terminology. This research presents Knowledge Distillation for Healthcare Multi - Label Text Classification (KDH - MLTC), a framework leveraging model compr ession and Large Language Models (LLMs). The proposed approach addresses conventional healthcare Multi - Label Text Classification (MLTC) challenges by integrating knowledge distillation and sequential fine - tuning, subsequently optimized through Particle Swa rm Optimization (PSO) for hyperparameter tuning. KDH - MLTC transfers knowledge from a more complex teacher LLM ( i.e., BERT) to a lighter student LLM ( i.e., DistilBERT) through sequential training adapted to MLTC that preserves the teacher's learned information while significantly reducing computational requirements. As a result, the classification is enabled to be conducted locally, making it suitable for healthcare textual data characterized by sensitivity and, therefore, ensuring HIPAA compliance. The e xpe riments conducted on three medical literature datasets of different sizes, sampled from the Hallmark of Cancer (HoC) dataset, demonstrate that KDH - MLTC achieves superior performance compared to existing approaches, particularly for the largest dataset, reaching an F1 score of 82.70% 0.89%. Additionally, statistical validation and an ablation study ar e carried out, proving the robustness of KDH - MLTC. Furthermore, the PSO - based hyperparameter optimization process allow ed the identification of optimal configurations. The proposed approach contributes to healthcare text classification research, balancing efficiency requirements in resource - constrained healthcare settings with satisfactory accuracy demands.