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Knowledge distillation is to transfer the knowledge from the data learned by the teacher network to the student network, so that the student has the advantage of less parameters and less calculations, and the accuracy is close to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Zaida Zhou , Chaoran Zhuge , Xinwei Guan , Wen Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate remarkable zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks, but fall short of the performance of supervised methods in generalizing to downstream tasks with limited data. Prompt learning is emerging as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Marco Mistretta , Alberto Baldrati , Marco Bertini , Andrew D. Bagdanov

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) enables the knowledge transfer from the given pre-trained teacher network to the target student model without access to the real training data. Existing DFKD methods focus primarily on improving image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zherui Zhang , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Wenhao Xu , Shibiao Xu , Yu Zhang , Li Guo

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 leverages a teacher model to improve the training of a student model. A persistent challenge is that a better teacher does not always yield a better student, to which a common mitigation is to use additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Abhishek Panigrahi , Bingbin Liu , Sadhika Malladi , Andrej Risteski , Surbhi Goel

Knowledge distillation (KD), as an efficient and effective model compression technique, has been receiving considerable attention in deep learning. The key to its success is to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Liyuan Sun , Jianping Gou , Baosheng Yu , Lan Du , Dacheng Tao

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by mimicking. However, distillation by directly aligning the feature maps between teacher and student may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziwei Liu , Yongtao Wang , Xiaojie Chu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher network to strengthen a smaller student. Existing methods focus on excavating the knowledge hints and transferring the whole knowledge to the student. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chenxin Li , Mingbao Lin , Zhiyuan Ding , Nie Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Liujuan Cao

Knowledge distillation is an effective and stable method for model compression via knowledge transfer. Conventional knowledge distillation (KD) is to transfer knowledge from a large and well pre-trained teacher network to a small student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Zhiqiang Liu , Yanxia Liu , Chengkai Huang

Knowledge distillation is a common technique for improving the performance of a shallow student network by transferring information from a teacher network, which in general, is comparatively large and deep. These teacher networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ishan Mishra , Sethu Vamsi Krishna , Deepak Mishra

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

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

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 aims to train a compact student network using soft supervision from a larger teacher network and hard supervision from ground truths. However, determining an optimal knowledge fusion ratio that balances these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chengming Hu , Haolun Wu , Xuan Li , Chen Ma , Xi Chen , Jun Yan , Boyu Wang , Xue Liu

Existing knowledge distillation methods mostly focus on distillation of teacher's prediction and intermediate activation. However, the structured representation, which arguably is one of the most critical ingredients of deep models, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jing Yang , Xiatian Zhu , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

In instance-level detection tasks (e.g., object detection), reducing input resolution is an easy option to improve runtime efficiency. However, this option traditionally hurts the detection performance much. This paper focuses on boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Jiuxiang Gu , Zhe Lin , Yi Wang , Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Jiaya Jia

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

The success of deep convolutional neural networks is partially attributed to the massive amount of annotated training data. However, in practice, medical data annotations are usually expensive and time-consuming to be obtained. Considering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Kang Li , Lequan Yu , Shujun Wang , Pheng-Ann Heng

Understanding what and how neural networks memorize during training is crucial, both from the perspective of unintentional memorization of potentially sensitive information and from the standpoint of effective knowledge acquisition for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Yuxin Wen , Yangsibo Huang , Tom Goldstein , Ravi Kumar , Badih Ghazi , Chiyuan Zhang

For many real-world time series tasks, the computational complexity of prevalent deep leaning models often hinders the deployment on resource-limited environments (e.g., smartphones). Moreover, due to the inevitable domain shift between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Qing Xu , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Kezhi Mao , Zhenghua Chen