<![CDATA[This study addresses the challenge of enhancing Small Language Models (SLMs) for complex code generation tasks requiring structured planning, which current models struggle with due to their monolithic, single-pass generation approach. A three-stage pipeline architecture is proposed that decouples strategic planning from implementation: (1) an SLM generates diverse natural language strategies at high temperature, (2) a filtering mechanism selects high-quality strategies while removing noise, and (3) refined strategies guide a specialized coding model for final implementation. The approach was evaluated on the ClassEval benchmark for class-level code generation. The pipeline enabled a 1.5B parameter model to achieve 13% class success rate, representing a 30% relative improvement over direct generation (10%) and competitive performance with models 5-8 times larger. Critically, effective strategy filtering proved more important than strategy diversity, with simple pattern-based filters successfully mitigating SLM artifacts like few-shot contamination. This work demonstrates that structured, inference-time computation offers an efficient alternative to parameter scaling, with strategic noise reduction being the key driver of performance gains in resource-constrained models.]]>
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