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Large-scale contrastive learning models can learn very informative sentence embeddings, but are hard to serve online due to the huge model size. Therefore, they often play the role of "teacher", transferring abilities to small "student"…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Chaochen Gao , Xing Wu , Peng Wang , Jue Wang , Liangjun Zang , Zhongyuan Wang , Songlin Hu

Spatiotemporal forecasting often relies on computationally intensive models to capture complex dynamics. Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a key technique for creating lightweight student models, with recent advances like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenshuo Wang , Yaomin Shen , Yingjie Tan , Yihao Chen

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been actively studied for image classification tasks in deep learning, aiming to improve the performance of a student based on the knowledge from a teacher. However, applying KD in image regression with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Zuheng Xu , Z. Jane Wang , William J. Welch

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising technique for model compression but faces critical limitations: (1) sensitivity to hyperparameters requiring extensive manual tuning, (2) capacity gap when distilling from very large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Gustavo Coelho Haase , Paulo Henrique Dourado da Silva

Knowledge distillation (KD) remains challenging due to the opaque nature of the knowledge transfer process from a Teacher to a Student, making it difficult to address certain issues related to KD. To address this, we proposed UniCAM, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Gereziher Adhane , Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi , Dennis Vetter , David Masip , Gemma Roig

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a very popular method for model size reduction. Recently, the technique is exploited for quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) training as a way to restore the performance sacrificed by word-length reduction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher network to a compact and efficient student network, making it suitable for deployment on resource-limited media terminals. However, traditional KD methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xinlei Huang , Jialiang Tang , Xubin Zheng , Jinjia Zhou , Wenxin Yu , Ning Jiang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

Knowledge distillation (KD), known for its ability to transfer knowledge from a cumbersome network (teacher) to a lightweight one (student) without altering the architecture, has been garnering increasing attention. Two primary categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yaomin Huang , Zaomin Yan , Chaomin Shen , Faming Fang , Guixu Zhang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is increasingly adopted to transfer capabilities from large language models to smaller ones, offering significant improvements in efficiency and utility while often surpassing standard fine-tuning. Beyond…

In the field of large language models (LLMs), Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a critical technique for transferring capabilities from teacher models to student models. However, existing KD methods face limitations and challenges in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yixing Li , Yuxian Gu , Li Dong , Dequan Wang , Yu Cheng , Furu Wei

Large language models (LLMs) are known to memorize parts of their training data, raising important concerns around privacy and security. While previous research has focused on studying memorization in pre-trained models, much less is known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Simardeep Singh

Knowledge distillation, a widely used model compression technique, works on the basis of transferring knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model. The technique involves jointly optimizing the task specific and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Shreyan Ganguly , Roshan Nayak , Rakshith Rao , Ujan Deb , Prathosh AP

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one of the approaches to reduce the size of Large Language Models (LLMs). A LLM with smaller number of model parameters (student) is trained to mimic the performance of a LLM of a larger size (teacher model)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rishika Sen , Sujoy Roychowdhury , Sumit Soman , H. G. Ranjani , Srikhetra Mohanty

Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as one of the most promising compression technologies to run advanced deep neural networks on resource-limited devices. In order to train a small network (student) under the guidance of a large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yi Guo , Yiqian He , Xiaoyang Li , Haotong Qin , Van Tung Pham , Yang Zhang , Shouda Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a valuable technique for compressing large deep learning models into smaller, edge-suitable networks. However, conventional KD frameworks rely on pre-trained high-capacity teacher networks, which introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hongjun Choi , Eun Som Jeon , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Knowledge distillation is widely applied in various fundamental vision models to enhance the performance of compact models. Existing knowledge distillation methods focus on designing different distillation targets to acquire knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yaoze Zhang , Yuming Zhang , Yu Zhao , Yue Zhang , Feiyu Zhu

In this paper, a novel confidence conditioned knowledge distillation (CCKD) scheme for transferring the knowledge from a teacher model to a student model is proposed. Existing state-of-the-art methods employ fixed loss functions for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Sourav Mishra , Suresh Sundaram

The extra trust brought by the model interpretation has made it an indispensable part of machine learning systems. But to explain a distilled model's prediction, one may either work with the student model itself, or turn to its teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Jinchao Huang , Guofu Li , Zhicong Yan , Fucai Luo , Shenghong Li

Knowledge distillation facilitates the training of a compact student network by using a deep teacher one. While this has achieved great success in many tasks, it remains completely unstudied for image-based 6D object pose estimation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shuxuan Guo , Yinlin Hu , Jose M. Alvarez , Mathieu Salzmann