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Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering a question about an image and requires processing multimodal input and reasoning to obtain the answer. Modular solutions that use declarative representations within the reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Thomas Eiter , Jan Hadl , Nelson Higuera , Johannes Oetsch

The widespread deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is hindered by the high computational demands, making knowledge distillation (KD) crucial for developing compact smaller ones. However, the conventional KD methods endure the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zengkui Sun , Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Often we wish to transfer representational knowledge from one neural network to another. Examples include distilling a large network into a smaller one, transferring knowledge from one sensory modality to a second, or ensembling a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yonglong Tian , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola

Unlike existing knowledge distillation methods focus on the baseline settings, where the teacher models and training strategies are not that strong and competing as state-of-the-art approaches, this paper presents a method dubbed DIST to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tao Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

In this paper, we present a thorough evaluation of the efficacy of knowledge distillation and its dependence on student and teacher architectures. Starting with the observation that more accurate teachers often don't make good teachers, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jang Hyun Cho , Bharath Hariharan

Knowledge distillation in machine learning is the process of transferring knowledge from a large model called the teacher to a smaller model called the student. Knowledge distillation is one of the techniques to compress the large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Durga Prasad Ganta , Himel Das Gupta , Victor S. Sheng

Cross-modal knowledge distillation deals with transferring knowledge from a model trained with superior modalities (Teacher) to another model trained with weak modalities (Student). Existing approaches require paired training examples exist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Long Zhao , Xi Peng , Yuxiao Chen , Mubbasir Kapadia , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Knowledge distillation aims to compress a powerful yet cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model without much sacrifice of performance. For this purpose, various approaches have been proposed over the past few years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Hailin Zhang , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

In this work, we address the problem of learning an ensemble of specialist networks using multimodal data, while considering the realistic and challenging scenario of possible missing modalities at test time. Our goal is to leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Nuno C. Garcia , Sarah Adel Bargal , Vitaly Ablavsky , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino , Stan Sclaroff

Knowledge distillation is a potential solution for model compression. The idea is to make a small student network imitate the target of a large teacher network, then the student network can be competitive to the teacher one. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chong Wang , Xipeng Lan , Yangang Zhang

The existing solutions for object detection distillation rely on the availability of both a teacher model and ground-truth labels. We propose a new perspective to relax this constraint. In our framework, a student is first trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi

Knowledge distillation transfers knowledge from large teacher models to smaller students for efficient inference. While existing methods primarily focus on distillation strategies, they often overlook the importance of enhancing teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xin Zhang , Jianyang Xu , Hao Peng , Dongjing Wang , Jingyuan Zheng , Yu Li , Yuyu Yin , Hongbo Wang

Knowledge distillation establishes a learning paradigm that leverages both data supervision and teacher guidance. However, determining the optimal balance between learning from data and learning from the teacher is challenging, as some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jingchen Sun , Shaobo Han , Deep Patel , Wataru Kohno , Can Jin , Changyou Chen

Knowledge distillation aims to learn a lightweight student network from a pre-trained teacher network. In practice, existing knowledge distillation methods are usually infeasible when the original training data is unavailable due to some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Chen Gong

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 refers to a technique of transferring the knowledge from a large learned model or an ensemble of learned models to a small model. This method relies on access to the original training set, which might not always be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Existing data-dependent hashing methods use large backbone networks with millions of parameters and are computationally complex. Existing knowledge distillation methods use logits and other features of the deep (teacher) model and as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Bytasandram Yaswanth Reddy , Shiv Ram Dubey , Rakesh Kumar Sanodiya , Ravi Ranjan Prasad Karn

Leveraging the capabilities of Knowledge Distillation (KD) strategies, we devise a strategy to fight the recent retraction of face recognition datasets. Given a pretrained Teacher model trained on a real dataset, we show that carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Pedro C. Neto , Ivona Colakovic , Sašo Karakatič , Ana F. Sequeira

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a key technique for compressing large language models into smaller ones while preserving performance. Despite the recent traction of KD research, its effectiveness for smaller language models (LMs) and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Suhas Kamasetty Ramesh , Ayan Sengupta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Knowledge distillation is the procedure of transferring "knowledge" from a large model (the teacher) to a more compact one (the student), often being used in the context of model compression. When both models have the same architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde