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Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common method for transferring the ``knowledge'' learned by one machine learning model (the \textit{teacher}) into another model (the \textit{student}), where typically, the teacher has a greater capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jie Fu , Xue Geng , Zhijian Duan , Bohan Zhuang , Xingdi Yuan , Adam Trischler , Jie Lin , Chris Pal , Hao Dong

Knowledge distillation~(KD) has been proved effective for compressing large-scale pre-trained language models. However, existing methods conduct KD statically, e.g., the student model aligns its output distribution to that of a selected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Lei Li , Yankai Lin , Shuhuai Ren , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Knowledge distillation (KD) has gained much attention due to its effectiveness in compressing large-scale pre-trained models. In typical KD methods, the small student model is trained to match the soft targets generated by the big teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yitao Liu , Tianxiang Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

This research investigates the enhancement of knowledge distillation (KD) processes in pre-trained models, an emerging field in knowledge transfer with significant implications for distributed training and federated learning environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Norah Alballa , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Marco Canini

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for compressing a teacher model to reduce its inference cost and memory footprint, by training a smaller student model. However, current KD methods for auto-regressive sequence models suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Rishabh Agarwal , Nino Vieillard , Yongchao Zhou , Piotr Stanczyk , Sabela Ramos , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Bachem

Deep learning models, particularly recurrent neural networks and their variants, such as long short-term memory, have significantly advanced time series data analysis. These models capture complex, sequential patterns in time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Nilushika Udayangani , Kishor Nandakishor , Marimuthu Palaniswami

In knowledge distillation, the knowledge from the teacher model is often too complex for the student model to thoroughly process. However, good teachers in real life always simplify complex material before teaching it to students. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mengyang Yuan , Bo Lang , Fengnan Quan

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a key technique for compressing large language models into smaller ones while preserving performance. Despite the recent traction of KD research, its effectiveness for smaller language models (LMs) and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Suhas Kamasetty Ramesh , Ayan Sengupta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful approach for compressing a large model into a smaller, more efficient model, particularly beneficial for latency-sensitive applications like recommender systems. However, current KD research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Nikhil Khani , Shuo Yang , Aniruddh Nath , Yang Liu , Pendo Abbo , Li Wei , Shawn Andrews , Maciej Kula , Jarrod Kahn , Zhe Zhao , Lichan Hong , Ed Chi

Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as one of the most promising compression technologies to run advanced deep neural networks on resource-limited devices. In order to train a small network (student) under the guidance of a large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yi Guo , Yiqian He , Xiaoyang Li , Haotong Qin , Van Tung Pham , Yang Zhang , Shouda Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising technique for addressing the computational challenges associated with deploying large-scale recommender systems. KD transfers the knowledge of a massive teacher system to a compact…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Gyuseok Lee , SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Hwanjo Yu

Recently, deep learning-based models have been widely studied for click-through rate (CTR) prediction and lead to improved prediction accuracy in many industrial applications. However, current research focuses primarily on building complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jieming Zhu , Jinyang Liu , Weiqi Li , Jincai Lai , Xiuqiang He , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Despite the success of Deep Learning (DL), the deployment of modern DL models requiring large computational power poses a significant problem for resource-constrained systems. This necessitates building compact networks that reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Akshay Kulkarni , Navid Panchi , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Shital Chiddarwar

We propose a novel knowledge distillation approach to facilitate the transfer of dark knowledge from a teacher to a student. Contrary to most of the existing methods that rely on effective training of student models given pretrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Dae Young Park , Moon-Hyun Cha , Changwook Jeong , Dae Sin Kim , Bohyung Han

Many existing studies on knowledge distillation have focused on methods in which a student model mimics a teacher model well. Simply imitating the teacher's knowledge, however, is not sufficient for the student to surpass that of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jihyeon Seo , Kyusam Oh , Chanho Min , Yongkeun Yun , Sungwoo Cho

Several recent studies have elucidated why knowledge distillation (KD) improves model performance. However, few have researched the other advantages of KD in addition to its improving model performance. In this study, we have attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hyeongrok Han , Siwon Kim , Hyun-Soo Choi , Sungroh Yoon

With the ever-growing complexity of models in the field of remote sensing (RS), there is an increasing demand for solutions that balance model accuracy with computational efficiency. Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yassine Himeur , Nour Aburaed , Omar Elharrouss , Iraklis Varlamis , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor , Hussain Al Ahmad

With the improvement of AI chips (e.g., GPU, TPU, and NPU) and the fast development of the Internet of Things (IoT), some robust deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually composed of millions or even hundreds of millions of parameters. Such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jun-Teng Yang , Sheng-Che Kao , Scott C. -H. Huang

Existing Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods often align feature information between teacher and student by exploring meaningful feature processing and loss functions. However, due to the difference in feature distributions between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Wang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Weilun Feng , Jiarui Zhao , Chengqing Yu , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become an important technique for model compression and knowledge transfer. In this work, we first perform a comprehensive analysis of the knowledge transferred by different KD methods. We demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fei Ding , Yin Yang , Hongxin Hu , Venkat Krovi , Feng Luo