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Motion Object Segmentation (MOS) is crucial for autonomous driving, as it enhances localization, path planning, map construction, scene flow estimation, and future state prediction. While existing methods achieve strong performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chunyu Cao , Jintao Cheng , Zeyu Chen , Linfan Zhan , Rui Fan , Zhijian He , Xiaoyu Tang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework that aims to transfer meaningful information from a large teacher to a smaller student. Generally, KD often involves how to define and transfer knowledge. Previous KD methods often focus…

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) refers to transferring knowledge from a large model to a smaller one, which is widely used to enhance model performance in machine learning. It tries to align embedding spaces generated from the teacher and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Weidong Shi , Guanghui Ren , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan

Knowledge distillation aims to enhance the performance of a lightweight student model by exploiting the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher model. However, in the traditional knowledge distillation, teacher predictions are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shiya Luo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Event cameras are gaining popularity due to their unique properties, such as their low latency and high dynamic range. One task where these benefits can be crucial is real-time object detection. However, RGB detectors still outperform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Lei Li , Alexander Liniger , Mario Millhaeusler , Vagia Tsiminaki , Yuanyou Li , Dengxin Dai

Self-distillation enables language models to learn on-policy from their own trajectories by using the same model as both student and teacher, with the teacher being conditioned on privileged information unavailable to the student. Such…

Traditional object detectors are ill-equipped for incremental learning. However, fine-tuning directly on a well-trained detection model with only new data will lead to catastrophic forgetting. Knowledge distillation is a flexible way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Tao Feng , Mang Wang , Hangjie Yuan

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to learn a compact student network using knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher network, where both networks are trained on data from the same distribution. However, in practical applications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Gang Niu , Hongyuan Zhu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chen Gong , Masashi Sugiyama

Training models continually to detect and classify objects, from new classes and new domains, remains an open problem. In this work, we conduct a thorough analysis of why and how object detection models forget catastrophically. We focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Eli Verwimp , Kuo Yang , Sarah Parisot , Hong Lanqing , Steven McDonagh , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Matthias De Lange , Tinne Tuytelaars

Recent recommender systems have shown remarkable performance by using an ensemble of heterogeneous models. However, it is exceedingly costly because it requires resources and inference latency proportional to the number of models, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Dongha Lee , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

Knowledge distillation (KD) achieves promising results on the challenging problem of unsupervised anomaly detection (AD).The representation discrepancy of anomalies in the teacher-student (T-S) model provides essential evidence for AD.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Hanqiu Deng , Xingyu Li

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient approach to transfer the knowledge from a large "teacher" network to a smaller "student" network. Traditional KD methods require lots of labeled training samples and a white-box teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Kien Do , Svetha Venkatesh

In the context of resource-constrained environments such as embedded systems, adapting reduced-size foundation models to downstream tasks has become increasingly popular. This has recently motivated the emerging setting of task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Reda Bensaid , Yassir Bendou , Vincent Gripon , François Leduc-Primeau

As large language models increasingly mediate firm - customer interactions, firms face a tradeoff: the most capable models perform well but are costly and difficult to control at scale. Existing knowledge distillation methods address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tong Wang , K. Sudhir

Previous knowledge distillation methods have shown their impressive performance on model compression tasks, however, it is hard to explain how the knowledge they transferred helps to improve the performance of the student network. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Ziyao Guo , Haonan Yan , Hui Li , Xiaodong Lin

In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation (KD) strategy for object detection and propose an effective framework applicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous student-teacher pairs. The conventional feature imitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Lewei Yao , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Tong Zhang

Algorithmic efficiency techniques such as distillation (\cite{hinton2015distillation}) are useful in improving model quality without increasing serving costs, provided a larger teacher model is available for a smaller student model to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Khoa Trinh , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee

3D object detection is one of the fundamental perception tasks for autonomous vehicles. Fulfilling such a task with a 4D millimeter-wave radar is very attractive since the sensor is able to acquire 3D point clouds similar to Lidar while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Ruoyu Xu , Zhiyu Xiang , Chenwei Zhang , Hanzhi Zhong , Xijun Zhao , Ruina Dang , Peng Xu , Tianyu Pu , Eryun Liu

Knowledge distillation is widely used as a means of improving the performance of a relatively simple student model using the predictions from a complex teacher model. Several works have shown that distillation significantly boosts the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Michal Lukasik , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Aditya Krishna Menon , Sanjiv Kumar