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Exploring Next — Ep 264 w/ Justy & Cody — Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation
Apple researchers developed Simple Self-Distillation (SSD), a technique that improves code generation models by fine-tuning them on their own raw outputs—no verification needed. The method improved Qwen3-30B-Instruct from 42.4% to 55.3% pass@1 on LiveCodeBench by reshaping token distributions to balance precision and exploration in code generation.