Knowledge distillation (KD) is a standard approach for compressing sequence-to-sequence models, but its per-sample effects are rarely examined. On the BanSum Bangla summarization benchmark, we find that standard KD improves ROUGE-L by only +0.
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By Chen Wang, Zhaochun Li, Jionghao Bai, Yining Zhang, Hexuan Deng, Ge Lan, Yue Wang
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