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Existing Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods often align feature information between teacher and student by exploring meaningful feature processing and loss functions. However, due to the difference in feature distributions between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Wang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Weilun Feng , Jiarui Zhao , Chengqing Yu , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

Event cameras sense per-pixel intensity changes and produce asynchronous event streams with high dynamic range and less motion blur, showing advantages over conventional cameras. A hurdle of training event-based models is the lack of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Lin Wang , Yujeong Chae , Sung-Hoon Yoon , Tae-Kyun Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Knowledge distillation refers to the process of training a compact student network to achieve better accuracy by learning from a high capacity teacher network. Most of the existing knowledge distillation methods direct the student to follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Himalaya Jain , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

On many natural language processing tasks, large pre-trained language models (PLMs) have shown overwhelming performances compared with traditional neural network methods. Nevertheless, their huge model size and low inference speed have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chenhe Dong , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen , Minghui Qiu

Current semantic segmentation methods focus only on mining "local" context, i.e., dependencies between pixels within individual images, by context-aggregation modules (e.g., dilated convolution, neural attention) or structure-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Fisher Yu , Jifeng Dai , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

In recent years, deep convolutional neural networks have made significant advances in pathology image segmentation. However, pathology image segmentation encounters with a dilemma in which the higher-performance networks generally require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-15 Wenxuan Zou , Muyi Sun

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective contrastive knowledge distillation framework that achieves sample-wise logit alignment while preserving semantic consistency. Conventional knowledge distillation approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Wencheng Zhu , Xin Zhou , Pengfei Zhu , Yu Wang , Qinghua Hu

In most cases deep learning architectures are trained disregarding the amount of operations and energy consumption. However, some applications, like embedded systems, can be resource-constrained during inference. A popular approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Carlos Lassance , Myriam Bontonou , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Jian Tang , Antonio Ortega

Traditional knowledge distillation (KD) relies on a proficient teacher trained on the target task, which is not always available. In this setting, cross-task distillation can be used, enabling the use of any teacher model trained on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Dylan Auty , Roy Miles , Benedikt Kolbeinsson , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised KD and on-policy KD, are adversely impacted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenda Xu , Rujun Han , Zifeng Wang , Long T. Le , Dhruv Madeka , Lei Li , William Yang Wang , Rishabh Agarwal , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister

Although the diffusion model has achieved remarkable performance in the field of image generation, its high inference delay hinders its wide application in edge devices with scarce computing resources. Therefore, many training-free sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) for object detection aims to train a compact detector by transferring knowledge from a teacher model. Since the teacher model perceives data in a way different from humans, existing KD methods only distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jiawei Liang , Siyuan Liang , Aishan Liu , Ke Ma , Jingzhi Li , Xiaochun Cao

This article addresses the problem of distilling knowledge from a large teacher model to a slim student network for LiDAR semantic segmentation. Directly employing previous distillation approaches yields inferior results due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Chen Change Loy , Yikang Li

Among the neural network compression techniques, knowledge distillation is an effective one which forces a simpler student network to mimic the output of a larger teacher network. However, most of such model distillation methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yuhu Shan

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 (KD) seeks to transfer the knowledge of a teacher, towards a student neural net. This process is often done by matching the networks' predictions (i.e., their output), but, recently several works have proposed to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-09 Eduardo Fernandes Montesuma

Knowledge distillation, aimed at transferring the knowledge from a heavy teacher network to a lightweight student network, has emerged as a promising technique for compressing neural networks. However, due to the capacity gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xuewei Li , Songyuan Li , Bourahla Omar , Fei Wu , Xi Li

Recently, deep learning-based models have been widely studied for click-through rate (CTR) prediction and lead to improved prediction accuracy in many industrial applications. However, current research focuses primarily on building complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jieming Zhu , Jinyang Liu , Weiqi Li , Jincai Lai , Xiuqiang He , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

It has been revealed that efficient dense image prediction (EDIP) models designed for AI chips, trained using the knowledge distillation (KD) framework, encounter two key challenges, including \emph{maintaining boundary region completeness}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dong Zhang , Pingcheng Dong , Long Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng

Recent progress in image-to-image translation has witnessed the success of generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, GANs usually contain a huge number of parameters, which lead to intolerant memory and computation consumption and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Linfeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Runpei Dong , Kaisheng Ma