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We investigate cross-quality knowledge distillation (CQKD), a knowledge distillation method where knowledge from a teacher network trained with full-resolution images is transferred to a student network that takes as input low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Pia Čuk , Robin Senge , Mikko Lauri , Simone Frintrop

Several methods of knowledge distillation have been developed for neural network compression. While they all use the KL divergence loss to align the soft outputs of the student model more closely with that of the teacher, the various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Huan Wang , Suhas Lohit , Michael Jones , Yun Fu

Knowledge distillation is a common technique for improving the performance of a shallow student network by transferring information from a teacher network, which in general, is comparatively large and deep. These teacher networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ishan Mishra , Sethu Vamsi Krishna , Deepak Mishra

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 one of the most potent ways for model compression. The key idea is to transfer the knowledge from a deep teacher model (T) to a shallower student (S). However, existing methods suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Chen Change Loy

This paper proposes a new knowledge distillation method tailored for image semantic segmentation, termed Intra- and Inter-Class Knowledge Distillation (I2CKD). The focus of this method is on capturing and transferring knowledge between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ayoub Karine , Thibault Napoléon , Maher Jridi

Knowledge distillation is a standard teacher-student learning framework to train a light-weight student network under the guidance of a well-trained large teacher network. As an effective teaching strategy, interactive teaching has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Shipeng Fu , Zhen Li , Jun Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Zitao Liu , Xiaomin Yang

Unlike the conventional Knowledge Distillation (KD), Self-KD allows a network to learn knowledge from itself without any guidance from extra networks. This paper proposes to perform Self-KD from image Mixture (MixSKD), which integrates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Helong Zhou , Linhang Cai , Xiang Zhi , Jiwen Wu , Yongjun Xu , Qian Zhang

Efficient deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices demands advanced compression techniques that preserve accuracy and interoperability. This paper proposes a machine learning framework that augments Knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Ramon Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

Knowledge distillation has become widely recognized for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact and more streamlined student network. Traditional knowledge distillation methods primarily follow a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Chaomin Shen , Yaomin Huang , Haokun Zhu , Jinsong Fan , Guixu Zhang

Knowledge distillation often involves how to define and transfer knowledge from teacher to student effectively. Although recent self-supervised contrastive knowledge achieves the best performance, forcing the network to learn such knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

With the success of deep neural networks, knowledge distillation which guides the learning of a small student network from a large teacher network is being actively studied for model compression and transfer learning. However, few studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Wonchul Son , Jaemin Na , Junyong Choi , Wonjun Hwang

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model with great improvements of the performance of the student model. Therefore, the student network can replace the teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jinhong Lin , Zhaoyang Li

High storage and computational costs obstruct deep neural networks to be deployed on resource-constrained devices. Knowledge distillation aims to train a compact student network by transferring knowledge from a larger pre-trained teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Changrui Chen , Zihe Dong

Compact models can be effectively trained through Knowledge Distillation (KD), a technique that transfers knowledge from larger, high-performing teacher models. Two key challenges in Knowledge Distillation (KD) are: 1) balancing learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeeshan Hayder , Ali Cheraghian , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

Knowledge distillation field delicately designs various types of knowledge to shrink the performance gap between compact student and large-scale teacher. These existing distillation approaches simply focus on the improvement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xuanyang Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun

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

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods are often either too computationally expensive or not accurate enough due to the trade-off between model complexity and inference performance. In this paper, we propose a lightweight network that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Hualie Jiang , Xiyue Guo , Yuan Gao , Xiangyong Lu , Tin Lun Lam

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widely-used technology to inherit information from cumbersome teacher models to compact student models, consequently realizing model compression and acceleration. Compared with image classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Gang Li , Xiang Li , Yujie Wang , Shanshan Zhang , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang