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This paper studies compressing pre-trained language models, like BERT (Devlin et al.,2019), via teacher-student knowledge distillation. Previous works usually force the student model to strictly mimic the smoothed labels predicted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Xing Wu , Yibing Liu , Xiangyang Zhou , Dianhai Yu

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for training a small student network to emulate a larger teacher model, such as an ensemble of networks. We show that while knowledge distillation can improve student generalization, it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Alexander A. Alemi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

In recent years, deep learning has spread rapidly, and deeper, larger models have been proposed. However, the calculation cost becomes enormous as the size of the models becomes larger. Various techniques for compressing the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hideki Oki , Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

Knowledge distillation involves transferring knowledge from large, cumbersome teacher models to more compact student models. The standard approach minimizes the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the probabilistic outputs of a teacher…

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

Despite the impressive progress of self-supervised learning (SSL), its applicability to low-compute networks has received limited attention. Reported performance has trailed behind standard supervised pre-training by a large margin, barring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Fuwen Tan , Fatemeh Saleh , Brais Martinez

Knowledge distillation is to transfer the knowledge from the data learned by the teacher network to the student network, so that the student has the advantage of less parameters and less calculations, and the accuracy is close to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Zaida Zhou , Chaoran Zhuge , Xinwei Guan , Wen Liu

Conventional knowledge distillation (KD) approaches are designed for the student model to predict similar output as the teacher model for each sample. Unfortunately, the relationship across samples with same class is often neglected. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jinjing Zhu , Songze Li , Lin Wang

Knowledge distillation can be a cost-effective technique to distill knowledge in Large Language Models, if the teacher output logits can be pre-computed and cached. However, successfully applying this to pre-training remains largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Anshumann , Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Akhil Kedia , Jinwoo Ahn , Taehwak Kwon , Kangwook Lee , Haejun Lee , Joohyung Lee

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common knowledge transfer algorithm used for model compression across a variety of deep learning based natural language processing (NLP) solutions. In its regular manifestations, KD requires access to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ahmad Rashid , Vasileios Lioutas , Abbas Ghaddar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Many recent breakthroughs in machine learning have been enabled by the pre-trained foundation models. By scaling up model parameters, training data, and computation resources, foundation models have significantly advanced the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Zhe Zhao , Qingyun Liu , Huan Gui , Bang An , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi

Knowledge distillation constitutes a potent methodology for condensing substantial neural networks into more compact and efficient counterparts. Within this context, softmax regression representation learning serves as a widely embraced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Huayu Li , Xiwen Chen , Gregory Ditzler , Janet Roveda , Ao Li

With the advancement of self-supervised learning (SSL), fine-tuning pretrained SSL models for mean opinion score (MOS) prediction has achieved state-of-the-art performance. However, during fine-tuning, these SSL-based MOS prediction models…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jianing Yang , Wataru Nakata , Yuki Saito , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The knowledge of a well-trained deep neural network (a.k.a. the "teacher") is valuable for learning similar tasks. Knowledge distillation extracts knowledge from the teacher and integrates it with the target model (a.k.a. the "student"),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Han-Jia Ye , Su Lu , De-Chuan Zhan

High storage and computational costs obstruct deep neural networks to be deployed on resource-constrained devices. Knowledge distillation aims to train a compact student network by transferring knowledge from a larger pre-trained teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Changrui Chen , Zihe Dong

The problem of learning from few labeled examples while using large amounts of unlabeled data has been approached by various semi-supervised methods. Although these methods can achieve superior performance, the models are often not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sahil Khose , Shruti Jain , V Manushree

Knowledge distillation (KD) is generally considered as a technique for performing model compression and learned-label smoothing. However, in this paper, we study and investigate the KD approach from a new perspective: we study its efficacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Nandan Kumar Jha , Rajat Saini , Sparsh Mittal

Numerous self-supervised learning paradigms, such as contrastive learning and masked image modeling, have been proposed to acquire powerful and general representations from unlabeled data. However, these models are commonly pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yuang Liu , Jing Wang , Qiang Zhou , Fan Wang , Jun Wang , Wei Zhang

Knowledge distillation extracts general knowledge from a pre-trained teacher network and provides guidance to a target student network. Most studies manually tie intermediate features of the teacher and student, and transfer knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Mingi Ji , Byeongho Heo , Sungrae Park

Knowledge distillation is a strategy of training a student network with guide of the soft output from a teacher network. It has been a successful method of model compression and knowledge transfer. However, currently knowledge distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Guangda Ji , Zhanxing Zhu

Recommender Systems (RS) have employed knowledge distillation which is a model compression technique training a compact student model with the knowledge transferred from a pre-trained large teacher model. Recent work has shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 SeongKu Kang , Junyoung Hwang , Wonbin Kweon , Hwanjo Yu