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An Empirical Study of Knowledge Distillation for Code Understanding Tasks

Cuiyun Gao, Qing Liao, Ruiqi Wang, Xin Xia, Zezhou Yang

arxiv:2508.15423 v1 · 2025-08-21 · cs.SE · cs.AI

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arxiv: 2508.15423 · arxiv_version: 2508.15423v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.15423 · pith_short_12: JN3Y3QOLZBDK · pith_short_16: JN3Y3QOLZBDKPK6S · pith_short_8: JN3Y3QOL

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