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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…

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Recent recommender systems have shown remarkable performance by using an ensemble of heterogeneous models. However, it is exceedingly costly because it requires resources and inference latency proportional to the number of models, which…

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This paper presents a method to interpret the success of knowledge distillation by quantifying and analyzing task-relevant and task-irrelevant visual concepts that are encoded in intermediate layers of a deep neural network (DNN). More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Xu Cheng , Zhefan Rao , Yilan Chen , Quanshi Zhang

Most existing salient object detection (SOD) models are difficult to apply due to the complex and huge model structures. Although some lightweight models are proposed, the accuracy is barely satisfactory. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jin Zhang , Qiuwei Liang , Yanjiao Shi

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been used in image classification for model compression. However, rare studies apply this technology on single-stage object detectors. Focal loss shows that the accumulated errors of easily-classified samples…

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Conventional knowledge distillation (KD) methods for object detection mainly concentrate on homogeneous teacher-student detectors. However, the design of a lightweight detector for deployment is often significantly different from a…

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Despite that current reading comprehension systems have achieved significant advancements, their promising performances are often obtained at the cost of making an ensemble of numerous models. Besides, existing approaches are also…

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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…

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Unsupervised texture anomaly detection has been a concerning topic in a vast amount of industrial processes. Patterned textures inspection, particularly in the context of fabric defect detection, is indeed a widely encountered use case.…

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A common dilemma in 3D object detection for autonomous driving is that high-quality, dense point clouds are only available during training, but not testing. We use knowledge distillation to bridge the gap between a model trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Yue Wang , Alireza Fathi , Jiajun Wu , Thomas Funkhouser , Justin Solomon

Existing Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods often align feature information between teacher and student by exploring meaningful feature processing and loss functions. However, due to the difference in feature distributions between the…

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Existing unsupervised keypoint detection methods apply artificial deformations to images such as masking a significant portion of images and using reconstruction of original image as a learning objective to detect keypoints. However, this…

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Multimodal Deep Learning has garnered much interest, and transformers have triggered novel approaches, thanks to the cross-attention mechanism. Here we propose an approach to deal with two key existing challenges: the high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Dhruv Agarwal , Tanay Agrawal , Laura M. Ferrari , François Bremond

In the past few years, transformers have achieved promising performances on various computer vision tasks. Unfortunately, the immense inference overhead of most existing vision transformers withholds their from being deployed on edge…

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The development of computer vision solutions for gigapixel images in digital pathology is hampered by significant computational limitations due to the large size of whole slide images. In particular, digitizing biopsies at high resolutions…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved significant advancement in computer vision tasks due to their powerful modeling capacity. However, their performance notably degrades when trained with insufficient data due to lack of inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Omar S. EL-Assiouti , Ghada Hamed , Dina Khattab , Hala M. Ebied

With the development of deep learning, advanced dialogue generation methods usually require a greater amount of computational resources. One promising approach to obtaining a high-performance and lightweight model is knowledge distillation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yiwei Li , Shaoxiong Feng , Bin Sun , Kan Li

Advanced change detection techniques primarily target image pairs of equal and high quality. However, variations in imaging conditions and platforms frequently lead to image pairs with distinct qualities: one image being high-quality, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chao Pang , Xingxing Weng , Jiang Wu , Qiang Wang , Gui-Song Xia

Compared to traditional learning from scratch, knowledge distillation sometimes makes the DNN achieve superior performance. This paper provides a new perspective to explain the success of knowledge distillation, i.e., quantifying knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Quanshi Zhang , Xu Cheng , Yilan Chen , Zhefan Rao