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Depth estimation and scene segmentation are two important tasks in intelligent transportation systems. A joint modeling of these two tasks will reduce the requirement for both the storage and training efforts. This work explores how the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Tiancong Cheng , Ying Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Roger Zimmermann , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo

In real-world systems, models are frequently updated as more data becomes available, and in addition to achieving high accuracy, the goal is to also maintain a low difference in predictions compared to the base model (i.e. predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Heinrich Jiang , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Dara Bahri , Andrew Cotter , Afshin Rostamizadeh

Knowledge distillation from pretrained visual representation models offers an effective approach to improve small, task-specific production models. However, the effectiveness of such knowledge transfer drops significantly when distilling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Chengyu Dong , Huan Gui , Noveen Sachdeva , Long Jin , Ke Yin , Jingbo Shang , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi , Zhe Zhao

Pretrained models have become a commodity and offer strong results on a broad range of tasks. In this work, we focus on classification and seek to learn a unique encoder able to take from several complementary pretrained models. We aim at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Mert Bulent Sariyildiz , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Thomas Lucas , Diane Larlus , Yannis Kalantidis

Knowledge distillation is a simple but powerful way to transfer knowledge between a teacher model to a student model. Existing work suffers from at least one of the following key limitations in terms of direction and scope of transfer which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Michael Livanos , Ian Davidson , Stephen Wong

Video representation learning is a vital problem for classification task. Recently, a promising unsupervised paradigm termed self-supervised learning has emerged, which explores inherent supervisory signals implied in massive data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Chenrui Zhang , Yuxin Peng

Dataset Distillation (DD) seeks to create a compact dataset from a large, real-world dataset. While recent methods often rely on heuristic approaches to balance efficiency and quality, the fundamental relationship between original and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shaobo Wang , Yantai Yang , Guo Chen , Peiru Li , Kaixin Li , Yufa Zhou , Zhaorun Chen , Linfeng Zhang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model compression algorithm that helps transfer the knowledge of a large neural network into a smaller one. Even though KD has shown promise on a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Tianda Li , Ahmad Rashid , Aref Jafari , Pranav Sharma , Ali Ghodsi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

This paper describes a novel knowledge distillation framework that leverages acoustically qualified speech data included in an existing training data pool as privileged information. In our proposed framework, a student network is trained…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Tohru Nagano , Takashi Fukuda , Gakuto Kurata

Often we wish to transfer representational knowledge from one neural network to another. Examples include distilling a large network into a smaller one, transferring knowledge from one sensory modality to a second, or ensembling a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yonglong Tian , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola

Dataset distillation aims to compress training data into fewer examples via a teacher, from which a student can learn effectively. While its success is often attributed to structure in the data, modern neural networks also memorize specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Freya Behrens , Lenka Zdeborová

Dataset distillation (DD) is an increasingly important technique that focuses on constructing a synthetic dataset capable of capturing the core information in training data to achieve comparable performance in models trained on the latter.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Yuanfang Peng , Jianyang Gu , Saeed Vahidian , Anthony Quinn , Fadwa Idlahcen , Yiran Chen

Knowledge distillation is considered as a training and compression strategy in which two neural networks, namely a teacher and a student, are coupled together during training. The teacher network is supposed to be a trustworthy predictor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Peyman Passban , Yimeng Wu , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Qun Liu

Federated Learning (FL) allows users to share knowledge instead of raw data to train a model with high accuracy. Unfortunately, during the training, users lose control over the knowledge shared, which causes serious data privacy issues. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 ShiMao Xu , Xiaopeng Ke , Xing Su , Shucheng Li , Hao Wu , Sheng Zhong , Fengyuan Xu

This paper aims to provide a selective survey about knowledge distillation(KD) framework for researchers and practitioners to take advantage of it for developing new optimized models in the deep neural network field. To this end, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jeong-Hoe Ku , JiHun Oh , YoungYoon Lee , Gaurav Pooniwala , SangJeong Lee

The common practice for training commonsense models has gone from-human-to-corpus-to-machine: humans author commonsense knowledge graphs in order to train commonsense models. In this work, we investigate an alternative,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Peter West , Chandra Bhagavatula , Jack Hessel , Jena D. Hwang , Liwei Jiang , Ronan Le Bras , Ximing Lu , Sean Welleck , Yejin Choi

Active learning can be defined as iterations of data labeling, model training, and data acquisition, until sufficient labels are acquired. A traditional view of data acquisition is that, through iterations, knowledge from human labels and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Beong-woo Kwak , Youngwook Kim , Yu Jin Kim , Seung-won Hwang , Jinyoung Yeo

Although transfer learning is considered to be a milestone in deep reinforcement learning, the mechanisms behind it are still poorly understood. In particular, predicting if knowledge can be transferred between two given tasks is still an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Valentin Guillet , Dennis G. Wilson , Carlos Aguilar-Melchor , Emmanuel Rachelson

Much of the focus in the area of knowledge distillation has been on distilling knowledge from a larger teacher network to a smaller student network. However, there has been little research on how the concept of distillation can be leveraged…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Zhong Qiu Lin , Alexander Wong

Deep ensembles excel in large-scale image classification tasks both in terms of prediction accuracy and calibration. Despite being simple to train, the computation and memory cost of deep ensembles limits their practicability. While some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Giung Nam , Jongmin Yoon , Yoonho Lee , Juho Lee