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Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique used to transfer knowledge from an overparameterized teacher network to a less-parameterized student network, thereby minimizing the incurred performance loss. KD methods can be categorized into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jaeyeon Jang , Young-Ik Kim , Jisu Lim , Hyeonseong Lee

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) are a promising class of quantum machine learning models with potential quantum advantages when implemented on scalable, error-corrected quantum computers. However, as system sizes increase, deploying QNNs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yuxuan Yan , Sitian Qian , Qi Zhao , Xingjian Zhang

It is well known that a speech recognition system that combines multiple acoustic models trained on the same data significantly outperforms a single-model system. Unfortunately, real time speech recognition using a whole ensemble of models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Zhenchuan Yang , Chun Zhang , Weibin Zhang , Jianxiu Jin , Dongpeng Chen

The number of traffic accidents has been continuously increasing in recent years worldwide. Many accidents are caused by distracted drivers, who take their attention away from driving. Motivated by the success of Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Dichao Liu , Toshihiko Yamasaki , Yu Wang , Kenji Mase , Jien Kato

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

The knowledge of a well-trained deep neural network (a.k.a. the "teacher") is valuable for learning similar tasks. Knowledge distillation extracts knowledge from the teacher and integrates it with the target model (a.k.a. the "student"),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Han-Jia Ye , Su Lu , De-Chuan Zhan

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

Typical technique in knowledge distillation (KD) is regularizing the learning of a limited capacity model (student) by pushing its responses to match a powerful model's (teacher). Albeit useful especially in the penultimate layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ada Gorgun , Yeti Z. Gurbuz , A. Aydin Alatan

Continual learning, involving sequential training on diverse tasks, often faces catastrophic forgetting. While knowledge distillation-based approaches exhibit notable success in preventing forgetting, we pinpoint a limitation in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zenglin Shi , Pei Liu , Tong Su , Yunpeng Wu , Kuien Liu , Yu Song , Meng Wang

Efficient deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices demands advanced compression techniques that preserve accuracy and interoperability. This paper proposes a machine learning framework that augments Knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Ramon Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been one of the most popu-lar methods to learn a compact model. However, it still suffers from highdemand in time and computational resources caused by sequential train-ing pipeline. Furthermore, the soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Benlin Liu , Yongming Rao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou , Cho-jui Hsieh

The holy grail in deep neural network research is porting the memory- and computation-intensive network models on embedded platforms with a minimal compromise in model accuracy. To this end, we propose a novel approach, termed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Srinidhi Hegde , Ranjitha Prasad , Ramya Hebbalaguppe , Vishwajith Kumar

We propose a novel way to train ranking models, such as recommender systems, that are both effective and efficient. Knowledge distillation (KD) was shown to be successful in image recognition to achieve both effectiveness and efficiency. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jiaxi Tang , Ke Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown great potential for transferring knowledge from a complex teacher model to a simple student model in which the heavy learning task can be accomplished efficiently and without losing too much prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Dai Shi , Zhiqi Shao , Yi Guo , Junbin Gao

Knowledge distillation, a technique recently gaining popularity for enhancing model generalization in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), operates under the assumption that both teacher and student models are trained on identical data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Can Wang , Zhe Wang , Defang Chen , Sheng Zhou , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

Knowledge distillation, which involves extracting the "dark knowledge" from a teacher network to guide the learning of a student network, has emerged as an important technique for model compression and transfer learning. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Guodong Xu , Ziwei Liu , Xiaoxiao Li , Chen Change Loy

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a very popular method for model size reduction. Recently, the technique is exploited for quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) training as a way to restore the performance sacrificed by word-length reduction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have significantly advanced the field of computer vision. To improve DNN training process, knowledge distillation methods demonstrate their effectiveness in accelerating network training by introducing a fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Daqian Shi , Xiaolei Diao , Xu Chen , Cédric M. John

Transformer attracts much attention because of its ability to learn global relations and superior performance. In order to achieve higher performance, it is natural to distill complementary knowledge from Transformer to convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yufan Liu , Jiajiong Cao , Bing Li , Weiming Hu , Jingting Ding , Liang Li

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model with great improvements of the performance of the student model. Therefore, the student network can replace the teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jinhong Lin , Zhaoyang Li