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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29130v1
• Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:38:45 GMT
• Title: DistilledGemma: Balanced Efficiency-Accuracy for Person-Place Relation Extraction from Multilingual Historical Articles
• Abstract summary: We present DistilledGemma, an efficient and accurate system for the HIPE-2026 shared task on person-place relation extraction.<n>Our approach adopts a three-stage knowledge distillation pipeline designed to balance classification accuracy with computational efficiency.
• Score: 3.079885946230076
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• 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 three-stage knowledge distillation pipeline designed to balance classification accuracy with computational efficiency. In the first stage, we systematically explored prompt engineering strategies across eight large language models to identify the most effective reasoning architecture for this challenging task. In the second stage, we applied supervised fine-tuning (SFT) via QLoRA to a Gemma 4 26B A4B teacher model, leveraging its strong multilingual capabilities to generate silver-standard chain-of-thought traces across the training corpus. In the final stage, we performed response-level distillation to transfer these learned reasoning patterns into a compact Gemma 4 E2B student model. In the official evaluation, our team WHEREAMI ranked 3rd on the standard test set with an accuracy profile mean score of 0.688, and 2nd on the binary test set with a mean score of 0.8156. Notably, by distilling knowledge from the 26B teacher to the 2.3B student, we preserved strong reasoning capabilities while reducing the deployed model size to approximately 2.3B effective parameters; the LoRA adapters used during training were merged into the student for inference. This configuration ranked 2nd in the balanced efficiency-accuracy profile across both the standard and binary test sets. These results demonstrate that knowledge distillation provides a practical and scalable solution for historical document processing, achieving competitive performance without excessive computational cost.

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