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DistilledGemma system achieves high accuracy in person-place relation extraction · 2 sources tracked

Researchers have developed DistilledGemma, an efficient system for extracting person-place relationships from multilingual historical articles, achieving a 0.688 mean score in the HIPE-2026 shared task. The system employs a three-stage knowledge distillation pipeline, starting with prompt engineering across large language models, followed by supervised fine-tuning of a Gemma 4 26B model using QLoRA, and concluding with response-level distillation into a smaller Gemma 4 E2B student model. This approach successfully reduced model size while maintaining strong reasoning capabilities, ranking second in efficiency-accuracy profiles for both standard and binary test sets. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates effective knowledge distillation for efficient processing of historical documents, potentially lowering computational costs for similar NLP tasks.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Youssef Aboelwafa, Ahmed Samir, Nagwa Elmakky, Marwan Torki ·

    DistilledGemma: Balanced Efficiency-Accuracy for Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Articles

    arXiv:2606.29130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DistilledGemma, an efficient and accurate system for the HIPE-2026 shared task on person-place relation extraction from multilingual historical newspaper articles in English, German, and French. Our approach adopts a thre…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Overview of HIPE-2026: Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Texts

    Was this person ever at that place, and if so, when? Answering such questions from noisy, multilingual historical documents is the central challenge of HIPE-2026, the third edition of the HIPE evaluation series. Moving from named entity recognition and linking (HIPE-2020, HIPE-20…