SMRTR ProgrammingApr 5, 2026Daily.dev

Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation

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Researchers improved code generation in large language models using self-distillation, where models fine-tune on their own outputs. This boosted Qwen3-30B-Instruct's LiveCodeBench performance from 42.4% to 55.3% pass@1.

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