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While deep models have shown promising performance in medical image segmentation, they heavily rely on a large amount of well-annotated data, which is difficult to access, especially in clinical practice. On the other hand, high-accuracy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Ziyuan Zhao , Andong Zhu , Zeng Zeng , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Cuntai Guan

We propose a new technique that boosts the convergence of training generative adversarial networks. Generally, the rate of training deep models reduces severely after multiple iterations. A key reason for this phenomenon is that a deep…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-15 Atsushi Nitanda , Taiji Suzuki

Conventional transfer learning leverages weights of pre-trained networks, but mandates the need for similar neural architectures. Alternatively, knowledge distillation can transfer knowledge between heterogeneous networks but often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhang Wang , Vivek Kumar Singh , Alex Benjamin , Mercy Asiedu , Elham Yousef Kalafi , Eugene Cheah , Viksit Kumar , Anthony Samir

Model compression has been widely adopted to obtain light-weighted deep neural networks. Most prevalent methods, however, require fine-tuning with sufficient training data to ensure accuracy, which could be challenged by privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Haoli Bai , Jiaxiang Wu , Irwin King , Michael Lyu

Recent years have witnessed dramatically improvements in the knowledge distillation, which can generate a compact student model for better efficiency while retaining the model effectiveness of the teacher model. Previous studies find that:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Lehan Yang , Jincen Song

Policy distillation, which transfers a teacher policy to a student policy has achieved great success in challenging tasks of deep reinforcement learning. This teacher-student framework requires a well-trained teacher model which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Kwei-Herng Lai , Daochen Zha , Yuening Li , Xia Hu

In knowledge distillation, since a single, omnipotent teacher network cannot solve all problems, multiple teacher-based knowledge distillations have been studied recently. However, sometimes their improvements are not as good as expected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Junyong Choi , Hyeon Cho , Seokhwa Cheung , Wonjun Hwang

We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Qin Shi , Amber Yijia Zheng , Qifan Song , Raymond A. Yeh

Knowledge distillation has demonstrated encouraging performances in deep model compression. Most existing approaches, however, require massive labeled data to accomplish the knowledge transfer, making the model compression a cumbersome and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Chengchao Shen , Xinchao Wang , Youtan Yin , Jie Song , Sihui Luo , Mingli Song

Knowledge distillation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. In this process, we typically have multiple types of knowledge extracted from the teacher model. The problem is to make full use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chenglong Wang , Yi Lu , Yongyu Mu , Yimin Hu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

This paper proposes an architecture for deep neural networks with hidden layer branches that learn targets of lower hierarchy than final layer targets. The branches provide a channel for enforcing useful information in hidden layer which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Abhinav Tushar

Knowledge distillation leverages a teacher model to improve the training of a student model. A persistent challenge is that a better teacher does not always yield a better student, to which a common mitigation is to use additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abhishek Panigrahi , Bingbin Liu , Sadhika Malladi , Andrej Risteski , Surbhi Goel

Neural network compression has recently received much attention due to the computational requirements of modern deep models. In this work, our objective is to transfer knowledge from a deep and accurate model to a smaller one. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Vasileios Belagiannis , Azade Farshad , Fabio Galasso

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model to enhance its performance. Existing methods often assume that the student model is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhua Zhang , Yi Gao , Ruyu Liu , Xu Cheng , Houxiang Zhang , Shengyong Chen

Knowledge distillation is the technique of compressing a larger neural network, known as the teacher, into a smaller neural network, known as the student, while still trying to maintain the performance of the larger neural network as much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Tianxun Zhou , Keng-Hwee Chiam

Deep learning based models are relatively large, and it is hard to deploy such models on resource-limited devices such as mobile phones and embedded devices. One possible solution is knowledge distillation whereby a smaller model (student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Abdolmaged Alkhulaifi , Fahad Alsahli , Irfan Ahmad

Deep neural network architectures have attained remarkable improvements in scene understanding tasks. Utilizing an efficient model is one of the most important constraints for limited-resource devices. Recently, several compression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Mahdi Ghorbani , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

Deep learning methods usually require a large amount of training data and lack interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge distillation and model interpretation framework for medical image classification that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a new method for transferring knowledge of a structure under training to another one. The typical application of KD is in the form of learning a small model (named as a student) by soft labels produced by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi