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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) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

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

Knowledge distillation is a popular paradigm for learning portable neural networks by transferring the knowledge from a large model into a smaller one. Most existing approaches enhance the student model by utilizing the similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Haoran Zhao , Kun Gong , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu

Diffusion models are central to modern generative modeling, and understanding how they balance memorization and generalization is critical for reliable deployment. Recent work has shown that memorization in diffusion models is shaped by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bingqing Jiang , Difan Zou

Knowledge Distillation is becoming one of the primary trends among neural network compression algorithms to improve the generalization performance of a smaller student model with guidance from a larger teacher model. This momentous rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sumanth Chennupati , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

Training a small student network with the guidance of a larger teacher network is an effective way to promote the performance of the student. Despite the different types, the guided knowledge used to distill is always kept unchanged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiangfan Han , Mengya Gao , Yujie Wang , Quanquan Li , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang

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

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring knowledge acquired in one model (a teacher) to another model (a student) that is typically smaller. Previous approaches can be expressed as a form of training the student to mimic output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Wonpyo Park , Dongju Kim , Yan Lu , Minsu Cho

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

Knowledge distillation deploys complex machine learning models in resource-constrained environments by training a smaller student model to emulate internal representations of a complex teacher model. However, the teacher's representations…

Many recent works on knowledge distillation have provided ways to transfer the knowledge of a trained network for improving the learning process of a new one, but finding a good technique for knowledge distillation is still an open problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Byeongho Heo , Minsik Lee , Sangdoo Yun , Jin Young Choi

Knowledge distillation is a common paradigm for transferring capabilities from larger models to smaller ones. While traditional distillation methods leverage a probabilistic divergence over the output of the teacher and student models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Prajjwal Bhattarai , Mohammad Amjad , Dmytro Zhylko , Tuka Alhanai

Deep learning achieved great progress recently, however, it is not easy or efficient to further improve its performance by increasing the size of the model. Multi-modal learning can mitigate this challenge by introducing richer and more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cairong Zhao , Yufeng Jin , Zifan Song , Haonan Chen , Duoqian Miao , Guosheng Hu

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

The performance of autoregressive models on natural language generation tasks has dramatically improved due to the adoption of deep, self-attentive architectures. However, these gains have come at the cost of hindering inference speed,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Alexander Lin , Jeremy Wohlwend , Howard Chen , Tao Lei

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model to enhance its performance. Existing methods often assume that the student model is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhua Zhang , Yi Gao , Ruyu Liu , Xu Cheng , Houxiang Zhang , Shengyong Chen

We tackle the problem of novel class discovery, which aims to learn novel classes without supervision based on labeled data from known classes. A key challenge lies in transferring the knowledge in the known-class data to the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Peiyan Gu , Chuyu Zhang , Ruijie Xu , Xuming He

Knowledge Distillation is an effective method to transfer the learning across deep neural networks. Typically, the dataset originally used for training the Teacher model is chosen as the "Transfer Set" to conduct the knowledge transfer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Anirban Chakraborty