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This paper studies the potential of distilling knowledge from pre-trained models, especially Masked Autoencoders. Our approach is simple: in addition to optimizing the pixel reconstruction loss on masked inputs, we minimize the distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yutong Bai , Zeyu Wang , Junfei Xiao , Chen Wei , Huiyu Wang , Alan Yuille , Yuyin Zhou , Cihang Xie

Deep learning models for image compression often face practical limitations in hardware-constrained applications. Although these models achieve high-quality reconstructions, they are typically complex, heavyweight, and require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Caroline Mazini Rodrigues , Nicolas Keriven , Thomas Maugey

We present ReCo, a contrastive learning framework designed at a regional level to assist learning in semantic segmentation. ReCo performs semi-supervised or supervised pixel-level contrastive learning on a sparse set of hard negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Shikun Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Edward Johns , Andrew J. Davison

Distilling knowledge from huge pre-trained networks to improve the performance of tiny networks has favored deep learning models to be used in many real-time and mobile applications. Several approaches that demonstrate success in this field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kaushal Bhogale

We propose an information-theoretic knowledge distillation approach for the compression of generative adversarial networks, which aims to maximize the mutual information between teacher and student networks via a variational optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Minsoo Kang , Hyewon Yoo , Eunhee Kang , Sehwan Ki , Hyong-Euk Lee , Bohyung Han

Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods are capable of transferring the knowledge encoded in a large and complex teacher into a smaller and faster student. Early methods were usually limited to transferring the knowledge only between the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nikolaos Passalis , Maria Tzelepi , Anastasios Tefas

Knowledge distillation, a widely used model compression technique, works on the basis of transferring knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model. The technique involves jointly optimizing the task specific and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Shreyan Ganguly , Roshan Nayak , Rakshith Rao , Ujan Deb , Prathosh AP

The ability to learn from incrementally arriving data is essential for any life-long learning system. However, standard deep neural networks forget the knowledge about the old tasks, a phenomenon called catastrophic forgetting, when trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Haseeb Shah , Khurram Javed , Faisal Shafait

Knowledge distillation often involves how to define and transfer knowledge from teacher to student effectively. Although recent self-supervised contrastive knowledge achieves the best performance, forcing the network to learn such knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

Knowledge distillation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. In this process, we typically have multiple types of knowledge extracted from the teacher model. The problem is to make full use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chenglong Wang , Yi Lu , Yongyu Mu , Yimin Hu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Logit-based knowledge distillation (KD) for classification is cost-efficient compared to feature-based KD but often subject to inferior performance. Recently, it was shown that the performance of logit-based KD can be improved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hyungkeun Park , Jong-Seok Lee

Knowledge distillation has become widely recognized for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact and more streamlined student network. Traditional knowledge distillation methods primarily follow a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Chaomin Shen , Yaomin Huang , Haokun Zhu , Jinsong Fan , Guixu Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a high-performance teacher to a lightweight student, reducing computational and storage costs while maintaining competitive accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fengming Yu , Haiwei Pan , Kejia Zhang , Jian Guan , Haiying Jiang

Knowledge distillation is normally used to compress a big network, or teacher, onto a smaller one, the student, by training it to match its outputs. Recently, some works have shown that robustness against adversarial attacks can also be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Javier Maroto , Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Pascal Frossard

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved significant advancement in computer vision tasks due to their powerful modeling capacity. However, their performance notably degrades when trained with insufficient data due to lack of inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Omar S. EL-Assiouti , Ghada Hamed , Dina Khattab , Hala M. Ebied

Despite that current reading comprehension systems have achieved significant advancements, their promising performances are often obtained at the cost of making an ensemble of numerous models. Besides, existing approaches are also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Minghao Hu , Yuxing Peng , Furu Wei , Zhen Huang , Dongsheng Li , Nan Yang , Ming Zhou

Knowledge distillation (KD), a technique widely employed in computer vision, has emerged as a de facto standard for improving the performance of small neural networks. However, prevailing KD-based approaches in video tasks primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Guiqin Wang , Peng Zhao , Yanjiang Shi , Cong Zhao , Shusen Yang

Training deep neural networks has become increasingly demanding, requiring large datasets and significant computational resources, especially as model complexity advances. Data distillation methods, which aim to improve data efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Sunwoo Cho , Yejin Jung , Nam Ik Cho , Jae Woong Soh

The improvement in the performance of efficient and lightweight models (i.e., the student model) is achieved through knowledge distillation (KD), which involves transferring knowledge from more complex models (i.e., the teacher model).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Seonghak Kim , Gyeongdo Ham , Yucheol Cho , Daeshik Kim

We investigate whether knowledge distillation (KD) from multiple heterogeneous teacher models can enhance the generation of transferable adversarial examples. A lightweight student model is trained using two KD strategies: curriculum-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Siddhartha Pradhan , Shikshya Shiwakoti , Neha Bathuri