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Knowledge distillation is a simple but powerful way to transfer knowledge between a teacher model to a student model. Existing work suffers from at least one of the following key limitations in terms of direction and scope of transfer which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Michael Livanos , Ian Davidson , Stephen Wong

Knowledge distillation is a powerful technique for transferring knowledge from a pre-trained teacher model to a student model. However, the true potential of knowledge transfer has not been fully explored. Existing approaches primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Kun He

Knowledge distillation involves transferring knowledge from large, cumbersome teacher models to more compact student models. The standard approach minimizes the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the probabilistic outputs of a teacher…

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

Multi-Teacher knowledge distillation provides students with additional supervision from multiple pre-trained teachers with diverse information sources. Most existing methods explore different weighting strategies to obtain a powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Hailin Zhang , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for training a compact model with the supervision of another large model, which could effectively improve the performance. Previous methods mainly focus on two aspects: 1) training the student to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tiancheng Wen , Shenqi Lai , Xueming Qian

Knowledge distillation (KD) remains challenging due to the opaque nature of the knowledge transfer process from a Teacher to a Student, making it difficult to address certain issues related to KD. To address this, we proposed UniCAM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Gereziher Adhane , Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi , Dennis Vetter , David Masip , Gemma Roig

Knowledge distillation has been widely adopted in computer vision task processing, since it can effectively enhance the performance of lightweight student networks by leveraging the knowledge transferred from cumbersome teacher networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yafei Qi , Chen Wang , Zhaoning Zhang , Yaping Liu , Yongmin Zhang

Traditional knowledge distillation transfers "dark knowledge" of a pre-trained teacher network to a student network, and ignores the knowledge in the training process of the teacher, which we call teacher's experience. However, in realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Chaofei Wang , Shaowei Zhang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful strategy for training deep neural networks (DNNs). Although it was originally proposed to train a more compact "student" model from a large "teacher" model, many recent efforts have focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Guanglong Sun , Hongwei Yan , Liyuan Wang , Qian Li , Bo Lei , Yi Zhong

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient approach to transfer the knowledge from a large "teacher" network to a smaller "student" network. Traditional KD methods require lots of labeled training samples and a white-box teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Kien Do , Svetha Venkatesh

Knowledge Distillation (KD) can transfer the reasoning abilities of large models to smaller ones, which can reduce the costs to generate Chain-of-Thoughts for reasoning tasks. KD methods typically ask the student to mimic the teacher's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minsang Kim , Seung Jun Baek

Significant memory and computational requirements of large deep neural networks restrict their application on edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a prominent model compression technique for deep neural networks in which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pranav Sharma , Ali Ghodsi

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widely used technique to transfer knowledge from pre-trained teacher models to (usually more lightweight) student models. However, in certain situations, this technique is more of a curse than a blessing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Haoyu Ma , Tianlong Chen , Ting-Kuei Hu , Chenyu You , Xiaohui Xie , Zhangyang Wang

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for training a small student network to emulate a larger teacher model, such as an ensemble of networks. We show that while knowledge distillation can improve student generalization, it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Alexander A. Alemi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Despite the recent works on knowledge distillation (KD) have achieved a further improvement through elaborately modeling the decision boundary as the posterior knowledge, their performance is still dependent on the hypothesis that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Junjie Liu , Dongchao Wen , Hongxing Gao , Wei Tao , Tse-Wei Chen , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

Knowledge distillation is a mainstream algorithm in model compression by transferring knowledge from the larger model (teacher) to the smaller model (student) to improve the performance of student. Despite many efforts, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muhe Ding , Jianlong Wu , Xue Dong , Xiaojie Li , Pengda Qin , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable accuracy in computer vision tasks. With inference time being a crucial factor, particularly in dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, knowledge distillation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Amir M. Mansourian , Rozhan Ahmadi , Shohreh Kasaei

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses neural networks by learning a small network (student) via transferring knowledge from a pre-trained large network (teacher). Many endeavours have been devoted to the image domain, while few works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ping Li , Chenhao Ping , Wenxiao Wang , Mingli Song

Compressing deep networks is essential to expand their range of applications to constrained settings. The need for compression however often arises long after the model was trained, when the original data might no longer be available. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jean-Michel Begon , Pierre Geurts

Transformer-based reinforcement learning has emerged as a strong candidate for sequential control in residential energy management. In particular, the Decision Transformer can learn effective battery dispatch policies from historical data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pascal Henrich , Jonas Sievers , Maximilian Beichter , Thomas Blank , Ralf Mikut , Veit Hagenmeyer