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Existing knowledge distillation methods mostly focus on distillation of teacher's prediction and intermediate activation. However, the structured representation, which arguably is one of the most critical ingredients of deep models, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jing Yang , Xiatian Zhu , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Recently, efficient Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention as a solution to their high computational complexity, making them more practical for real-world applications. In this regard, the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiwan Kim , Kibum Kim , Sangwoo Seo , Chanyoung Park

Existing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods primarily learn object-invariant representations but often neglect the spatial structure and relationships among object parts. To address this limitation, we introduce Spatial Prediction (SP),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yang Shen , Yusen Cai , Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Qing Lin , Mengmi Zhang

Knowledge distillation aims at obtaining a compact and effective model by learning the mapping function from a much larger one. Due to the limited capacity of the student, the student would underfit the teacher. Therefore, student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Jia Guo , Minghao Chen , Yao Hu , Chen Zhu , Xiaofei He , Deng Cai

This article addresses the problem of distilling knowledge from a large teacher model to a slim student network for LiDAR semantic segmentation. Directly employing previous distillation approaches yields inferior results due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Chen Change Loy , Yikang Li

In recent years, deep neural networks have been successful in both industry and academia, especially for computer vision tasks. The great success of deep learning is mainly due to its scalability to encode large-scale data and to maneuver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jianping Gou , Baosheng Yu , Stephen John Maybank , Dacheng Tao

Among the neural network compression techniques, knowledge distillation is an effective one which forces a simpler student network to mimic the output of a larger teacher network. However, most of such model distillation methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yuhu Shan

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by mimicking. However, distillation by directly aligning the feature maps between teacher and student may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziwei Liu , Yongtao Wang , Xiaojie Chu

Knowledge distillation provides an effective way to transfer knowledge via teacher-student learning, where most existing distillation approaches apply a fixed pre-trained model as teacher to supervise the learning of student network. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Kangkai Zhang , Chunhui Zhang , Shikun Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

In this work, we address the issues of missing modalities that have arisen from the Visual Question Answer-Difference prediction task and find a novel method to solve the task at hand. We address the missing modality-the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Jae Won Cho , Dong-Jin Kim , Jinsoo Choi , Yunjae Jung , In So Kweon

This paper proposes the DistillCSE framework, which performs contrastive learning under the self-training paradigm with knowledge distillation. The potential advantage of DistillCSE is its self-enhancing feature: using a base model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Jiahao Xu , Wei Shao , Lihui Chen , Lemao Liu

Unlike existing knowledge distillation methods focus on the baseline settings, where the teacher models and training strategies are not that strong and competing as state-of-the-art approaches, this paper presents a method dubbed DIST to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tao Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Akshar Tumu , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Reasoning over temporal knowledge graphs (TKGs) is fundamental to improving the efficiency and reliability of intelligent decision-making systems and has become a key technological foundation for future artificial intelligence applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Wang Xing , Wei Song , Siyu Lin , Chen Wu , Zhesi Li , Man Wang

Spatial Reasoning is an important component of human cognition and is an area in which the latest Vision-language models (VLMs) show signs of difficulty. The current analysis works use image captioning tasks and visual question answering.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Akshar Tumu , Varad Shinde , Parisa Kordjamshidi

The existing solutions for object detection distillation rely on the availability of both a teacher model and ground-truth labels. We propose a new perspective to relax this constraint. In our framework, a student is first trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi

In recent years, many explanation methods have been proposed to explain individual classifications of deep neural networks. However, how to leverage the created explanations to improve the learning process has been less explored. As the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jindong Gu , Zhiliang Wu , Volker Tresp

Spatial reasoning -- the ability to perceive and reason about relationships in space -- advances vision-language models (VLMs) from visual perception toward spatial semantic understanding. Existing approaches either revisit local image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Weijian Ma , Shizhao Sun , Tianyu Yu , Ruiyu Wang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jiang Bian

Current state-of-the-art cross-lingual summarization models employ multi-task learning paradigm, which works on a shared vocabulary module and relies on the self-attention mechanism to attend among tokens in two languages. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Thong Nguyen , Luu Anh Tuan

Training a small student network with the guidance of a larger teacher network is an effective way to promote the performance of the student. Despite the different types, the guided knowledge used to distill is always kept unchanged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiangfan Han , Mengya Gao , Yujie Wang , Quanquan Li , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang