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Capacity vs. architecture: an evaluation of SLMs for automated docstring generation

Aug 2026 · International Conference on Automated Software Engineering · Vol 33 · 0 citations · 33 references
Topic Modeling

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A reproducible, human-validated evaluation framework applied to 13 strategies—four architectural families crossed with four reasoning variants crossed with four reasoning variants—across three SLMs spanning 3B–14B parameters, plus targeted ablations.

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