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While the success of deep learning relies on large amounts of training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. To address this challenge, generative model learning with differential privacy has emerged as a solution to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Bochao Liu , Pengju Wang , Shiming Ge

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 introduce a novel knowledge distillation approach for the semantic segmentation task. Unlike previous methods that rely on power-trained teachers or other modalities to provide additional knowledge, our approach does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shoumeng Qiu , Jie Chen , Xinrun Li , Ru Wan , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Knowledge distillation(KD) aims to improve the performance of a student network by mimicing the knowledge from a powerful teacher network. Existing methods focus on studying what knowledge should be transferred and treat all samples equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Youcai Zhang , Zhonghao Lan , Yuchen Dai , Fangao Zeng , Yan Bai , Jie Chang , Yichen Wei

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, making their adversarial robustness a crucial concern. While adversarial knowledge distillation has shown promise in transferring robustness from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuqi Li , Junhao Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Shiping Wen , Piotr Koniusz , Tingwen Huang , Yingli Tian , Yew-Soon Ong

In this work, we investigate the implicit regularization induced by teacher-student learning dynamics in self-distillation. To isolate its effect, we describe a simple experiment where we consider teachers at random initialization instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Felix Sarnthein , Gregor Bachmann , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Thomas Hofmann

Recently, research efforts have been concentrated on revealing how pre-trained model makes a difference in neural network performance. Self-supervision and semi-supervised learning technologies have been extensively explored by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Cheng Cui , Ruoyu Guo , Yuning Du , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Zewu Wu , Qiwen Liu , Shilei Wen , Jizhou Huang , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Errui Ding , Yanjun Ma

Deep learning algorithms have been shown to perform extremely well on many classical machine learning problems. However, recent studies have shown that deep learning, like other machine learning techniques, is vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel , Xi Wu , Somesh Jha , Ananthram Swami

Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) is a promising task to solve the issue of limited adversarial robustness of small capacity models while optimizing the expensive computational costs of Adversarial Training (AT). Despite the good…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Pinxue Guo , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang , Lizhe Qi

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become a widely used technique in the field of model compression, which aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a lightweight student model for efficient network development. In addition to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Weichao Lan , Yiu-ming Cheung , Qing Xu , Buhua Liu , Zhikai Hu , Mengke Li , Zhenghua Chen

Knowledge distillation is considered as a training and compression strategy in which two neural networks, namely a teacher and a student, are coupled together during training. The teacher network is supposed to be a trustworthy predictor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Peyman Passban , Yimeng Wu , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Qun Liu

The inadvertent stealing of private/sensitive information using Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been getting significant attention recently and has guided subsequent defense efforts considering its critical nature. Recent work Nasty Teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Surgan Jandial , Yash Khasbage , Arghya Pal , Vineeth N Balasubramanian , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Knowledge distillation (KD) has gained much attention due to its effectiveness in compressing large-scale pre-trained models. In typical KD methods, the small student model is trained to match the soft targets generated by the big teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yitao Liu , Tianxiang Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Neural networks provide state-of-the-art results for most machine learning tasks. Unfortunately, neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples: given an input $x$ and any target classification $t$, it is possible to find a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Nicholas Carlini , David Wagner

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) transfers knowledge from a teacher to a student without access the real in-distribution (ID) data. Its common solution is to use a generator to synthesize fake data and use them as a substitute for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ziming Hong , Runnan Chen , Zengmao Wang , Bo Han , Bo Du , Tongliang Liu

Model distillation is frequently proposed as a technique to reduce the privacy leakage of machine learning. These empirical privacy defenses rely on the intuition that distilled ``student'' models protect the privacy of training data, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Matthew Jagielski , Milad Nasr , Christopher Choquette-Choo , Katherine Lee , Nicholas Carlini

In recent years, the rapid development of deep neural networks has brought increased attention to the security and robustness of these models. While existing adversarial attack algorithms have demonstrated success in improving adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Wenyuan Wu , Zheng Liu , Yong Chen , Chao Su , Dezhong Peng , Xu Wang

In standard adversarial training, models are optimized to fit one-hot labels within allowable adversarial perturbation budgets. However, the ignorance of underlying distribution shifts brought by perturbations causes the problem of robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yu-Yu Wu , Hung-Jui Wang , Shang-Tse Chen

Label assignment in object detection aims to assign targets, foreground or background, to sampled regions in an image. Unlike labeling for image classification, this problem is not well defined due to the object's bounding box. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Chuong H. Nguyen , Thuy C. Nguyen , Tuan N. Tang , Nam L. H. Phan

Recent progress in accelerating text-to-image diffusion models enables high-fidelity synthesis within a single denoising step. However, customizing the fast one-step models remains challenging, as existing methods consistently fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yixiong Yang , Tao Wu , Senmao Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Kai Wang