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# Microsoft 4B FrogNano Hits 61\.5% on SWE\-bench Without Model Distillation

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**Published:** 2026-09-09T19:18:06.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** microsoft, frog\-nano, swe\-bench, rl, small\-language\-model, software\-development

## Summary

A new reinforcement learning approach on synthetic tasks allows a small language model to perform complex software engineering without a larger teacher\. The Fr…

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