Challenge: In most of neural machine translation distillation or stealing scenarios, the highest-scoring hypothesis of the target model is used to train a new model.
Approach: They propose to use the highest-scoring hypothesis of the target model (teacher) to train a new model (student).
Outcome: The proposed method improves the performance of MT models in English to Czech and with reference translations.

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