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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

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for transferring knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to a smaller student model by aligning their output distributions. However, existing methods often underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Seonghak Kim

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 involves transferring the predictive capabilities of large, high-performing AI models (teachers) to smaller models (students) that can operate in environments with limited computing power. In this paper, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a successful approach for deep neural network acceleration, with which a compact network (student) is trained by mimicking the softmax output of a pre-trained high-capacity network (teacher). In tradition, KD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zi Wang

Knowledge distillation compacts deep networks by letting a small student network learn from a large teacher network. The accuracy of knowledge distillation recently benefited from adding residual layers. We propose to reduce the size of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Silvia L. Pintea , Yue Liu , Jan C. van Gemert

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for model compression, enabling the transfer of knowledge from large teacher networks to compact student models. However, traditional knowledge distillation methods treat all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Aakash Gore , Anoushka Dey , Aryan Mishra

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to promote a smaller student model. Existing efforts guide the distillation by matching their prediction logits, feature embedding, etc., while leaving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yiyang Liu , Chenxin Li , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang

Recently, distillation approaches are suggested to extract general knowledge from a teacher network to guide a student network. Most of the existing methods transfer knowledge from the teacher network to the student via feeding the sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Zihe Dong , Qiong Li

Knowledge distillation (KD), best known as an effective method for model compression, aims at transferring the knowledge of a bigger network (teacher) to a much smaller network (student). Conventional KD methods usually employ the teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ji Won Yoon , Hyung Yong Kim , Hyeonseung Lee , Sunghwan Ahn , Nam Soo Kim

Although Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown a strong capacity to solve large-scale problems in many areas, such DNNs are hard to be deployed in real-world systems due to their voluminous parameters. To tackle this issue, Teacher-Student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Chengming Hu , Xuan Li , Dan Liu , Haolun Wu , Xi Chen , Ju Wang , Xue Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework that aims to transfer meaningful information from a large teacher to a smaller student. Generally, KD often involves how to define and transfer knowledge. Previous KD methods often focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

The burgeoning complexity of contemporary deep learning models, while achieving unparalleled accuracy, has inadvertently introduced deployment challenges in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge distillation, a technique aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar

In real applications, different computation-resource devices need different-depth networks (e.g., ResNet-18/34/50) with high-accuracy. Usually, existing methods either design multiple networks and train them independently, or construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qi Zhao , Shuchang Lyu , Zhiwei Zhang , Ting-Bing Xu , Guangliang Cheng

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are successful in addressing a multitude of vision-language understanding tasks, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), but their memory and compute requirements remain a concern for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nikolaos Gkalelis , Vasileios Mezaris

Knowledge distillation (KD) compresses deep neural networks by transferring task-related knowledge from cumbersome pre-trained teacher models to compact student models. However, current KD methods for super-resolution (SR) networks overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yun Zhang , Wei Li , Simiao Li , Hanting Chen , Zhijun Tu , Wenjia Wang , Bingyi Jing , Shaohui Lin , Jie Hu

As in school, one teacher to cover all subjects is insufficient to distill equally robust information to a student. Hence, each subject is taught by a highly specialised teacher. Following a similar philosophy, we propose a multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Eduarda Caldeira , Jaime S. Cardoso , Ana F. Sequeira , Pedro C. Neto

This work introduces a novel knowledge distillation framework for classification tasks where information on existing subclasses is available and taken into consideration. In classification tasks with a small number of classes or binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ahmad Sajedi , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Knowledge distillation (KD) provides an effective way to improve the performance of a student network under the guidance of pre-trained teachers. However, this approach usually brings in a large capacity gap between teacher and student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Tong Li , Long Liu , Yihang Hu , Hu Chen , Shifeng Chen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) uses the teacher's prediction logits as soft labels to guide the student, while self-KD does not need a real teacher to require the soft labels. This work unifies the formulations of the two tasks by decomposing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhendong Yang , Ailing Zeng , Zhe Li , Tianke Zhang , Chun Yuan , Yu Li