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Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses computationally expensive pre-trained language models (PLMs) by transferring their knowledge to smaller models, allowing their use in resource-constrained or real-time settings. However, most smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hayeon Lee , Rui Hou , Jongpil Kim , Davis Liang , Hongbo Zhang , Sung Ju Hwang , Alexander Min

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…

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Large-scale language models have recently demonstrated impressive empirical performance. Nevertheless, the improved results are attained at the price of bigger models, more power consumption, and slower inference, which hinder their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Kevin J Liang , Weituo Hao , Dinghan Shen , Yufan Zhou , Weizhu Chen , Changyou Chen , Lawrence Carin

In recent years, deep learning has spread rapidly, and deeper, larger models have been proposed. However, the calculation cost becomes enormous as the size of the models becomes larger. Various techniques for compressing the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hideki Oki , Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain

The trade-off between predictive accuracy and data availability makes it difficult to predict protein--protein binding affinity accurately. The lack of experimentally resolved protein structures limits the performance of structure-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Wajid Arshad Abbasi , Syed Ali Abbas , Maryum Bibi , Saiqa Andleeb , Muhammad Naveed Akhtar

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

Logit-based knowledge distillation (KD) for classification is cost-efficient compared to feature-based KD but often subject to inferior performance. Recently, it was shown that the performance of logit-based KD can be improved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hyungkeun Park , Jong-Seok Lee

Knowledge distillation refers to a technique of transferring the knowledge from a large learned model or an ensemble of learned models to a small model. This method relies on access to the original training set, which might not always be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Incremental learning targets at achieving good performance on new categories without forgetting old ones. Knowledge distillation has been shown critical in preserving the performance on old classes. Conventional methods, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Peng Zhou , Long Mai , Jianming Zhang , Ning Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Larry S. Davis

Deep learning techniques have achieved great success in many fields, while at the same time deep learning models are getting more complex and expensive to compute. It severely hinders the wide applications of these models. In order to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yongqi Li , Wenjie Li

This paper presents a method to interpret the success of knowledge distillation by quantifying and analyzing task-relevant and task-irrelevant visual concepts that are encoded in intermediate layers of a deep neural network (DNN). More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Xu Cheng , Zhefan Rao , Yilan Chen , Quanshi Zhang

The use of large transformer-based models such as BERT, GPT, and T5 has led to significant advancements in natural language processing. However, these models are computationally expensive, necessitating model compression techniques that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Apoorv Dankar , Adeem Jassani , Kartikaeya Kumar

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been considered as a key solution in model compression and acceleration in recent years. In KD, a small student model is generally trained from a large teacher model by minimizing the divergence between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Raed Alharbi , Minh N. Vu , My T. Thai

Deep pre-training and fine-tuning models (like BERT, OpenAI GPT) have demonstrated excellent results in question answering areas. However, due to the sheer amount of model parameters, the inference speed of these models is very slow. How to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Ze Yang , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Wutao Lin , Daxin Jiang

Direct speech translation (ST) has shown to be a complex task requiring knowledge transfer from its sub-tasks: automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT). For MT, one of the most promising techniques to transfer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Marco Gaido , Mattia A. Di Gangi , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) models are trained to strike a balance between latency and translation quality. However, training these models to achieve high quality while maintaining low latency often leads to a tendency for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhengrui Ma , Shaolei Zhang , Shoutao Guo , Chenze Shao , Min Zhang , Yang Feng

Knowledge distillation has become one of the most important model compression techniques by distilling knowledge from larger teacher networks to smaller student ones. Although great success has been achieved by prior distillation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Yuzhang Shang , Bin Duan , Ziliang Zong , Liqiang Nie , Yan Yan

Dataset Distillation is used to create a concise, yet informative, synthetic dataset that can replace the original dataset for training purposes. Some leading methods in this domain prioritize long-range matching, involving the unrolling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Dai Liu , Jindong Gu , Hu Cao , Carsten Trinitis , Martin Schulz

Non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NART) models suffer from the multi-modality problem which causes translation inconsistency such as token repetition. Most recent approaches have attempted to solve this problem by implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jongyoon Song , Sungwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon