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Voice interfaces integral to the human-computer interaction systems can benefit from speech emotion recognition (SER) to customize responses based on user emotions. Since humans convey emotions through multi-modal audio-visual cues,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Varsha Pendyala , Pedro Morgado , William Sethares

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

Speech emotion recognition (SER) is the task of recognising human's emotional states from speech. SER is extremely prevalent in helping dialogue systems to truly understand our emotions and become a trustworthy human conversational partner.…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Zhao Ren , Thanh Tam Nguyen , Yi Chang , Björn W. Schuller

We formally study how ensemble of deep learning models can improve test accuracy, and how the superior performance of ensemble can be distilled into a single model using knowledge distillation. We consider the challenging case where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Yuanzhi Li

This paper studies compressing pre-trained language models, like BERT (Devlin et al.,2019), via teacher-student knowledge distillation. Previous works usually force the student model to strictly mimic the smoothed labels predicted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Xing Wu , Yibing Liu , Xiangyang Zhou , Dianhai Yu

Ensemble models comprising of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown significant improvements in model generalization but at the cost of large computation and memory requirements. In this paper, we present a framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Umar Asif , Jianbin Tang , Stefan Harrer

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

Traditional knowledge distillation transfers "dark knowledge" of a pre-trained teacher network to a student network, and ignores the knowledge in the training process of the teacher, which we call teacher's experience. However, in realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Chaofei Wang , Shaowei Zhang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

An increasing number of datasets sharing similar domains for semantic segmentation have been published over the past few years. But despite the growing amount of overall data, it is still difficult to train bigger and better models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anton Backhaus , Thorsten Luettel , Mirko Maehlisch

Recent recommender systems have shown remarkable performance by using an ensemble of heterogeneous models. However, it is exceedingly costly because it requires resources and inference latency proportional to the number of models, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Dongha Lee , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

Compressing deep neural network (DNN) models becomes a very important and necessary technique for real-world applications, such as deploying those models on mobile devices. Knowledge distillation is one of the most popular methods for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Makoto Takamoto , Yusuke Morishita , Hitoshi Imaoka

The problem of learning from few labeled examples while using large amounts of unlabeled data has been approached by various semi-supervised methods. Although these methods can achieve superior performance, the models are often not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sahil Khose , Shruti Jain , V Manushree

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

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widespread technique for compressing the knowledge of large models into more compact and efficient models. KD has proved to be highly effective in building well-performing low-complexity Acoustic Scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

Lack of labeled data is a main obstacle in relation extraction. Semi-supervised relation extraction (SSRE) has been proven to be a promising way for this problem through annotating unlabeled samples as additional training data. Almost all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Wanli Li , Tieyun Qian

Knowledge distillation methods have recently shown to be a promising direction to speedup the synthesis of large-scale diffusion models by requiring only a few inference steps. While several powerful distillation methods were recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Nikita Starodubcev , Artem Fedorov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

End-to-end speech translation (ST), which directly translates from source language speech into target language text, has attracted intensive attentions in recent years. Compared to conventional pipeline systems, end-to-end ST models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Yuchen Liu , Hao Xiong , Zhongjun He , Jiajun Zhang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang , Chengqing Zong

Since the advent of knowledge distillation, much research has focused on how the soft labels generated by the teacher model can be utilized effectively. Existing studies points out that the implicit knowledge within soft labels originates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hua Yuan , Ning Xu , Xin Geng , Yong Rui

The quantization of deep neural networks (QDNNs) has been actively studied for deployment in edge devices. Recent studies employ the knowledge distillation (KD) method to improve the performance of quantized networks. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yoonho Boo , Sungho Shin , Jungwook Choi , Wonyong Sung