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Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

This paper aims to provide a selective survey about knowledge distillation(KD) framework for researchers and practitioners to take advantage of it for developing new optimized models in the deep neural network field. To this end, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jeong-Hoe Ku , JiHun Oh , YoungYoon Lee , Gaurav Pooniwala , SangJeong Lee

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an established paradigm for transferring privileged knowledge from a cumbersome model to a lightweight and efficient one. In recent years, logit-based KD methods are quickly catching up in performance with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Weijia Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Chao Ma

Model compression through knowledge distillation has seen extensive application in classification and segmentation tasks. However, its potential in image-to-image translation, particularly in image restoration, remains underexplored. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yongheng Zhang , Danfeng Yan

Recent mainstream masked distillation methods function by reconstructing selectively masked areas of a student network from the feature map of its teacher counterpart. In these methods, the masked regions need to be properly selected, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Guang Yang , Yin Tang , Zhijian Wu , Jun Li , Jianhua Xu , Xili Wan

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a popular method to train efficient networks ("student") with the help of high-capacity networks ("teacher"). Traditional methods use the teacher's soft logits as extra supervision to train the student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Guo-Hua Wang , Yifan Ge , Jianxin Wu

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

Knowledge distillation is an effective technique for pre-trained language model compression. However, existing methods only focus on the knowledge distribution among layers, which may cause the loss of fine-grained information in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zihe Liu , Yulong Mao , Jinan Xu , Xinrui Peng , Kaiyu Huang

Knowledge distillation is a mainstream algorithm in model compression by transferring knowledge from the larger model (teacher) to the smaller model (student) to improve the performance of student. Despite many efforts, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muhe Ding , Jianlong Wu , Xue Dong , Xiaojie Li , Pengda Qin , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

Knowledge Distillation is crucial for optimizing face recognition models for deployment in computationally limited settings, such as edge devices. Traditional KD methods, such as Raw L2 Feature Distillation or Feature Consistency loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Durgesh Mishra , Rishabh Uikey

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a well-known training paradigm in deep neural networks where knowledge acquired by a large teacher model is transferred to a small student. KD has proven to be an effective technique to significantly improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Philip de Rijk , Lukas Schneider , Marius Cordts , Dariu M. Gavrila

Most existing distillation methods ignore the flexible role of the temperature in the loss function and fix it as a hyper-parameter that can be decided by an inefficient grid search. In general, the temperature controls the discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Zheng Li , Xiang Li , Lingfeng Yang , Borui Zhao , Renjie Song , Lei Luo , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Knowledge distillation is an effective method for model compression. However, it is still a challenging topic to apply knowledge distillation to detection tasks. There are two key points resulting in poor distillation performance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zhenliang Ni , Fukui Yang , Shengzhao Wen , Gang Zhang

Multi-teacher knowledge distillation (KD), a more effective technique than traditional single-teacher methods, transfers knowledge from expert teachers to a compact student model using logit or feature matching. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Amir M. Mansourian , Amir Mohammad Babaei , Shohreh Kasaei

Deep neural models in recent years have been successful in almost every field, including extremely complex problem statements. However, these models are huge in size, with millions (and even billions) of parameters, thus demanding more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lin Wang , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Despite the success of Deep Learning (DL), the deployment of modern DL models requiring large computational power poses a significant problem for resource-constrained systems. This necessitates building compact networks that reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Akshay Kulkarni , Navid Panchi , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Shital Chiddarwar

Standard Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses Large Language Models (LLMs) by optimizing final outputs, yet it typically treats the teacher's intermediate layer's thought process as a black box. While feature-based distillation attempts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Manish Dhakal , Uthman Jinadu , Anjila Budathoki , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Yi Ding

The teacher-free online Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to train an ensemble of multiple student models collaboratively and distill knowledge from each other. Although existing online KD methods achieve desirable performance, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Helong Zhou , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yongjun Xu , Qian Zhan

Knowledge distillation (KD), as an efficient and effective model compression technique, has been receiving considerable attention in deep learning. The key to its success is to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Liyuan Sun , Jianping Gou , Baosheng Yu , Lan Du , Dacheng Tao