AMR-Evol: Adaptive Modular Response Evolution Elicits Better Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models in Code Generation (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | proprietary large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive code generation performance. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive module-based model that refines the direct response distillation process by modular decomposition and adaptive response evolution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms baseline model and code generation methods on three popular benchmarks. |
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