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Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for training a small student network to emulate a larger teacher model, such as an ensemble of networks. We show that while knowledge distillation can improve student generalization, it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Alexander A. Alemi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Knowledge distillation is a technique for improving the performance of a simple "student" model by replacing its one-hot training labels with a distribution over labels obtained from a complex "teacher" model. While this simple approach has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Aditya Krishna Menon , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank J. Reddi , Seungyeon Kim , Sanjiv Kumar

After a large "teacher" neural network has been trained on labeled data, the probabilities that the teacher assigns to incorrect classes reveal a lot of information about the way in which the teacher generalizes. By training a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Rafael Müller , Simon Kornblith , Geoffrey Hinton

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

Knowledge distillation aims to transfer useful information from a teacher network to a student network, with the primary goal of improving the student's performance for the task at hand. Over the years, there has a been a deluge of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Utkarsh Ojha , Yuheng Li , Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Yingyu Liang , Yong Jae Lee

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

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 (KD) is an effective method for model compression and transferring knowledge between models. However, its effect on model's robustness against spurious correlations that degrade performance on out-of-distribution data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jiali Cheng , Chirag Agarwal , Hadi Amiri

Knowledge distillation has proven to be an effective technique in improving the performance a student model using predictions from a teacher model. However, recent work has shown that gains in average efficiency are not uniform across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Serena Wang , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Yichen Zhou , Sara Hooker , Michal Lukasik , Aditya Krishna Menon

A popular approach to model compression is to train an inexpensive student model to mimic the class probabilities of a highly accurate but cumbersome teacher model. Surprisingly, this two-step knowledge distillation process often leads to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-21 Tri Dao , Govinda M Kamath , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Lester Mackey

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model to enhance its performance. Existing methods often assume that the student model is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhua Zhang , Yi Gao , Ruyu Liu , Xu Cheng , Houxiang Zhang , Shengyong Chen

Knowledge distillation is an effective approach to learn compact models (students) with the supervision of large and strong models (teachers). As empirically there exists a strong correlation between the performance of teacher and student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Chaofei Wang , Qisen Yang , Rui Huang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for training a compact model with the supervision of another large model, which could effectively improve the performance. Previous methods mainly focus on two aspects: 1) training the student to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tiancheng Wen , Shenqi Lai , Xueming Qian

Knowledge distillation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. In this process, we typically have multiple types of knowledge extracted from the teacher model. The problem is to make full use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chenglong Wang , Yi Lu , Yongyu Mu , Yimin Hu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Generalization Performance of Deep Learning models trained using Empirical Risk Minimization can be improved significantly by using Data Augmentation strategies such as simple transformations, or using Mixed Samples. We attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Deepan Das , Haley Massa , Abhimanyu Kulkarni , Theodoros Rekatsinas

Does Knowledge Distillation (KD) really work? Conventional wisdom viewed it as a knowledge transfer procedure where a perfect mimicry of the student to its teacher is desired. However, paradoxical studies indicate that closely replicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chenqi Guo , Shiwei Zhong , Xiaofeng Liu , Qianli Feng , Yinglong Ma

Recent years have witnessed dramatically improvements in the knowledge distillation, which can generate a compact student model for better efficiency while retaining the model effectiveness of the teacher model. Previous studies find that:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Lehan Yang , Jincen Song

Traditionally, distillation has been used to train a student model to emulate the input/output functionality of a teacher. A more useful goal than emulation, yet under-explored, is for the student to learn feature representations that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Zhizhong Li , Avinash Ravichandran , Charless Fowlkes , Marzia Polito , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to improve the test accuracy of a "student" network, by training it to mimic the soft probabilities of a trained "teacher" network. Yet, it has been shown in recent work that, despite being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Aditya Krishna Menon , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Hossein Mobahi , Sanjiv Kumar
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