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Knowledge distillation (KD) is a core component in the training and deployment of modern generative models, particularly large language models (LLMs). While its empirical benefits are well documented -- enabling smaller student models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sungmin Cha , Kyunghyun Cho

Knowledge distillation (KD) exploits a large well-trained model (i.e., teacher) to train a small student model on the same dataset for the same task. Treating teacher features as knowledge, prevailing methods of knowledge distillation train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yuzhu Wang , Lechao Cheng , Manni Duan , Yongheng Wang , Zunlei Feng , Shu Kong

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widespread technique for compressing the knowledge of large models into more compact and efficient models. KD has proved to be highly effective in building well-performing low-complexity Acoustic Scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a critical tool for training Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the majority of research focuses on approaches that rely solely on output logits, neglecting semantic information in the teacher's intermediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Maxime Guigon , Lucas Dixon , Michaël E. Sander

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been proven to be a simple and effective tool for training compact models. Almost all KD variants for dense prediction tasks align the student and teacher networks' feature maps in the spatial domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Changyong Shu , Yifan Liu , Jianfei Gao , Zheng Yan , Chunhua Shen

Knowledge distillation (KD) has proved to be an effective approach for deep neural network compression, which learns a compact network (student) by transferring the knowledge from a pre-trained, over-parameterized network (teacher). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one of the approaches to reduce the size of Large Language Models (LLMs). A LLM with smaller number of model parameters (student) is trained to mimic the performance of a LLM of a larger size (teacher model)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Rishika Sen , Sujoy Roychowdhury , Sumit Soman , H. G. Ranjani , Srikhetra Mohanty

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a commonly used technique for improving the generalization of compact Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) on downstream tasks. However, such methods impose the additional burden of training a separate teacher…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Peng Lu , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ahmad Rashid , Ali Ghodsi , Philippe Langlais

Knowledge distillation (KD) requires sufficient data to transfer knowledge from large-scale teacher models to small-scale student models. Therefore, data augmentation has been widely used to mitigate the shortage of data under specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ziqi Wang , Chi Han , Wenxuan Bao , Heng Ji

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been extensively used for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks to improve a small model's (a student) generalization by transferring the knowledge from a larger model (a teacher). Although KD methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Aref Jafari , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pascal Poupart , Ali Ghodsi

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted approach for compressing large neural networks by transferring knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. In the context of large language models, token level KD,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yihan Cao , Yanbin Kang , Zhengming Xing , Ruijie Jiang

Typical technique in knowledge distillation (KD) is regularizing the learning of a limited capacity model (student) by pushing its responses to match a powerful model's (teacher). Albeit useful especially in the penultimate layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ada Gorgun , Yeti Z. Gurbuz , A. Aydin Alatan

Knowledge distillation (KD) is used to enhance automatic speaker verification performance by ensuring consistency between large teacher networks and lightweight student networks at the embedding level or label level. However, the…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Duc-Tuan Truong , Ruijie Tao , Jia Qi Yip , Kong Aik Lee , Eng Siong Chng

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a very popular method for model size reduction. Recently, the technique is exploited for quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) training as a way to restore the performance sacrificed by word-length reduction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher to a compact yet well-performing student. Previous KD practices for pre-trained language models mainly transfer knowledge by aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lean Wang , Lei Li , Xu Sun

Pre-trained language models such as BERT have proven to be highly effective for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the high demand for computing resources in training such models hinders their application in practice. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Siqi Sun , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Jingjing Liu

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

Knowledge distillation is considered as a training and compression strategy in which two neural networks, namely a teacher and a student, are coupled together during training. The teacher network is supposed to be a trustworthy predictor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Peyman Passban , Yimeng Wu , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Qun Liu