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Knowledge distillation is the process of transferring the knowledge from a large model to a small model. In this process, the small model learns the generalization ability of the large model and retains the performance close to that of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Zhenyan Hou , Wenxuan Fan

Self-supervised learning can significantly improve the performance of downstream tasks, however, the dimensions of learned representations normally lack explicit physical meanings. In this work, we propose a novel self-supervised approach…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Yifan Sun , Xihong Wu

Training machine learning models on massive datasets is expensive and time-consuming. Dataset distillation addresses this by creating a small synthetic dataset that achieves the same performance as the full dataset. Recent methods use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago , Mubarak Shah

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted considerable attention for their event-driven, low-power characteristics and high biological interpretability. Inspired by knowledge distillation (KD), recent research has improved the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Lin Zuo , Yongqi Ding , Mengmeng Jing , Kunshan Yang , Yunqian Yu

While deep models have shown promising performance in medical image segmentation, they heavily rely on a large amount of well-annotated data, which is difficult to access, especially in clinical practice. On the other hand, high-accuracy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-20 Ziyuan Zhao , Andong Zhu , Zeng Zeng , Bharadwaj Veeravalli , Cuntai Guan

Deep neural models in recent years have been successful in almost every field, including extremely complex problem statements. However, these models are huge in size, with millions (and even billions) of parameters, thus demanding more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lin Wang , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Knowledge distillation involves transferring the predictive capabilities of large, high-performing AI models (teachers) to smaller models (students) that can operate in environments with limited computing power. In this paper, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

For named entity recognition (NER) in zero-resource languages, utilizing knowledge distillation methods to transfer language-independent knowledge from the rich-resource source languages to zero-resource languages is an effective means.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Ling Ge , Chunming Hu , Guanghui Ma , Hong Zhang , Jihong Liu

We present Self-Classifier -- a novel self-supervised end-to-end classification learning approach. Self-Classifier learns labels and representations simultaneously in a single-stage end-to-end manner by optimizing for same-class prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Elad Amrani , Leonid Karlinsky , Alex Bronstein

Black-box knowledge distillation for large language models presents a strict trade-off. Simple off-policy methods (e.g., sequence-level knowledge distillation) struggle to correct the student's inherent errors. Fully on-policy methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Xiwen Chen , Jingjing Wang , Wenhui Zhu , Peijie Qiu , Xuanzhao Dong , Hejian Sang , Zhipeng Wang , Alborz Geramifard , Feng Luo

Self-supervised learning makes significant progress in pre-training large models, but struggles with small models. Mainstream solutions to this problem rely mainly on knowledge distillation, which involves a two-stage procedure: first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shuai Zhao , Linchao Zhu , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang

Algorithmic efficiency techniques such as distillation (\cite{hinton2015distillation}) are useful in improving model quality without increasing serving costs, provided a larger teacher model is available for a smaller student model to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Khoa Trinh , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee

Dataset distillation aims to compress information from a large-scale original dataset to a new compact dataset while striving to preserve the utmost degree of the original data informational essence. Previous studies have predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Muxin Zhou , Zeyuan Yin , Shitong Shao , Zhiqiang Shen

The task of dataset distillation aims to find a small set of synthetic images such that training a model on them reproduces the performance of the same model trained on a much larger dataset of real samples. Existing distillation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 George Cazenavette , Antonio Torralba , Vincent Sitzmann

Knowledge distillation is a widely applicable technique for training a student neural network under the guidance of a trained teacher network. For example, in neural network compression, a high-capacity teacher is distilled to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Frederick Tung , Greg Mori

In recent years, many explanation methods have been proposed to explain individual classifications of deep neural networks. However, how to leverage the created explanations to improve the learning process has been less explored. As the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jindong Gu , Zhiliang Wu , Volker Tresp

Existing methods for distillation do not efficiently utilize the training data. This work presents a novel approach to perform distillation using only a subset of the training data, making it more data-efficient. For this purpose, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Sourav Mishra , Suresh Sundaram

Training speaker-discriminative and robust speaker verification systems without explicit speaker labels remains a persisting challenge. In this paper, we propose a new self-supervised speaker verification approach, Self-Distillation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-28 Yafeng Chen , Siqi Zheng , Hui Wang , Luyao Cheng , Qian Chen , Shiliang Zhang , Wen Wang

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

Increased training parameters have enabled large pre-trained models to excel in various downstream tasks. Nevertheless, the extensive computational requirements associated with these models hinder their widespread adoption within the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yu-Liang Zhan , Zhong-Yi Lu , Hao Sun , Ze-Feng Gao