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Originally proposed as a method for knowledge transfer from one model to another, some recent studies have suggested that knowledge distillation (KD) is in fact a form of regularization. Perhaps the strongest argument of all for this new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Md Arafat Sultan

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success across multimodal tasks, yet their substantial computational demands hinder efficient deployment. Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a powerful approach for building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Pume Tuchinda , Parinthapat Pengpun , Romrawin Chumpu , Sarana Nutanong , Peerat Limkonchotiwat

Knowledge distillation has proven effective for model compression by transferring knowledge from a larger network called the teacher to a smaller network called the student. Current knowledge distillation in time series is predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Nilushika Udayangani Hewa Dehigahawattage , Kishor Nandakishor , Marimuthu Palaniswami

Knowledge distillation is a popular approach for enhancing the performance of ''student'' models, with lower representational capacity, by taking advantage of more powerful ''teacher'' models. Despite its apparent simplicity and widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mher Safaryan , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

Existing knowledge distillation methods mostly focus on distillation of teacher's prediction and intermediate activation. However, the structured representation, which arguably is one of the most critical ingredients of deep models, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jing Yang , Xiatian Zhu , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Self-supervised representation learning has proved to be a valuable component for out-of-distribution (OoD) detection with only the texts of in-distribution (ID) examples. These approaches either train a language model from scratch or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Qianhui Wu , Huiqiang Jiang , Haonan Yin , Börje F. Karlsson , Chin-Yew Lin

Logit Knowledge Distillation has gained substantial research interest in recent years due to its simplicity and lack of requirement for intermediate feature alignment; however, it suffers from limited interpretability in its decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xiang Xue , Yatu Ji , Qing-dao-er-ji Ren , Bao Shi , Min Lu , Nier Wu , Xufei Zhuang , Haiteng Xu , Gan-qi-qi-ge Cha

In recent years, current mainstream feature masking distillation methods mainly function by reconstructing selectively masked regions of a student network from the feature maps of a teacher network. In these methods, attention mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhourui Zhang , Jun Li , Zhijian Wu , Jifeng Shen , Jianhua Xu

Label assignment in object detection aims to assign targets, foreground or background, to sampled regions in an image. Unlike labeling for image classification, this problem is not well defined due to the object's bounding box. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Chuong H. Nguyen , Thuy C. Nguyen , Tuan N. Tang , Nam L. H. Phan

Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. Previous work applying KD in the field of large language models (LLMs) typically focused on the post-training phase, where the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hao Peng , Xin Lv , Yushi Bai , Zijun Yao , Jiajie Zhang , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Object detection in documents is a key step to automate the structural elements identification process in a digital or scanned document through understanding the hierarchical structure and relationships between different elements. Large and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ayan Banerjee , Sanket Biswas , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal

Knowledge distillation is widely adopted in semantic segmentation to reduce the computation cost.The previous knowledge distillation methods for semantic segmentation focus on pixel-wise feature alignment and intra-class feature variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhengbo Zhang , Chunluan Zhou , Zhigang Tu

Deep learning has shown its efficacy in extracting useful features to solve various computer vision tasks. However, when the structure of the data is complex and noisy, capturing effective information to improve performance is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Eun Som Jeon , Rahul Khurana , Aishani Pathak , Pavan Turaga

Monocular 3D object detection is a low-cost but challenging task, as it requires generating accurate 3D localization solely from a single image input. Recent developed depth-assisted methods show promising results by using explicit depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zizhang Wu , Yunzhe Wu , Jian Pu , Xianzhi Li , Xiaoquan Wang

Advanced change detection techniques primarily target image pairs of equal and high quality. However, variations in imaging conditions and platforms frequently lead to image pairs with distinct qualities: one image being high-quality, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chao Pang , Xingxing Weng , Jiang Wu , Qiang Wang , Gui-Song Xia

We propose Cross-Attention-based Non-local Knowledge Distillation (CanKD), a novel feature-based knowledge distillation framework that leverages cross-attention mechanisms to enhance the knowledge transfer process. Unlike traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Shizhe Sun , Wataru Ohyama

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has become a promising language-supervised visual pre-training framework. This paper aims to distill small CLIP models supervised by a large teacher CLIP model. We propose several distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Junyu Bi , Xinqiang Yu , Han Yang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

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

In the surveillance and defense domain, multi-target detection and classification (MTD) is considered essential yet challenging due to heterogeneous inputs from diverse data sources and the computational complexity of algorithms designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ngoc Tuyen Do , Tri Nhu Do

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a highly promising method for mitigating the computational problems of pre-trained language models (PLMs). Among various KD approaches, Intermediate Layer Distillation (ILD) has been a de facto standard KD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jongwoo Ko , Seungjoon Park , Minchan Jeong , Sukjin Hong , Euijai Ahn , Du-Seong Chang , Se-Young Yun