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While depth tends to improve network performances, it also makes gradient-based training more difficult since deeper networks tend to be more non-linear. The recently proposed knowledge distillation approach is aimed at obtaining small and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-30 Adriana Romero , Nicolas Ballas , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou , Antoine Chassang , Carlo Gatta , Yoshua Bengio

Knowledge distillation is widely used to improve generalization in practice, yet its theoretical understanding remains elusive. In the standard distillation setting, a teacher model provides soft predictions to guide the training of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bingying Li , Haiyun He

In recent years, deep neural networks have been successful in both industry and academia, especially for computer vision tasks. The great success of deep learning is mainly due to its scalability to encode large-scale data and to maneuver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jianping Gou , Baosheng Yu , Stephen John Maybank , Dacheng Tao

Knowledge distillation compresses a larger neural model (teacher) into smaller, faster student models by training them to match teacher outputs. However, the internal computational transformations that occur during this process remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Reilly Haskins , Benjamin Adams

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

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

In this paper, we introduce InDistill, a method that serves as a warmup stage for enhancing Knowledge Distillation (KD) effectiveness. InDistill focuses on transferring critical information flow paths from a heavyweight teacher to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Ioannis Sarridis , Christos Koutlis , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris , Symeon Papadopoulos

There is a need for an on-the-fly computational process with very low performance system such as system-on-chip (SoC) and embedded device etc. This paper presents pacemaker knowledge distillation as intermediate ensemble teacher to use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Wonchul Son , Youngbin Kim , Wonseok Song , Youngsu Moon , Wonjun Hwang

Knowledge distillation from large language models (LLMs) assumes that the teacher's output distribution is a high-quality training signal. On reasoning tasks, this assumption is frequently violated. A model's intermediate representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ryan Brown , Chris Russell

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 (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 has attracted a great deal of interest recently to compress pre-trained language models. However, existing knowledge distillation methods suffer from two limitations. First, the student model simply imitates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Siyue Wu , Hongzhan Chen , Xiaojun Quan , Qifan Wang , Rui Wang

Since the advent of knowledge distillation, much research has focused on how the soft labels generated by the teacher model can be utilized effectively. Existing studies points out that the implicit knowledge within soft labels originates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hua Yuan , Ning Xu , Xin Geng , Yong Rui

Knowledge distillation is an effective method to transfer the knowledge from the cumbersome teacher model to the lightweight student model. Online knowledge distillation uses the ensembled prediction results of multiple student models as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Zheng Li , Ying Huang , Defang Chen , Tianren Luo , Ning Cai , Zhigeng Pan

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 is an effective technique for pre-trained language model compression. Although existing knowledge distillation methods perform well for the most typical model BERT, they could be further improved in two aspects: the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ying Zhang , Ziheng Yang , Shufan Ji

Knowledge distillation (KD) provides an effective way to improve the performance of a student network under the guidance of pre-trained teachers. However, this approach usually brings in a large capacity gap between teacher and student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Tong Li , Long Liu , Yihang Hu , Hu Chen , Shifeng Chen

Deep learning methods usually require a large amount of training data and lack interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge distillation and model interpretation framework for medical image classification that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

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 an effective framework to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher to a compact yet well-performing student. Previous KD practices for pre-trained language models mainly transfer knowledge by aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lean Wang , Lei Li , Xu Sun
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