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Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising technique for model compression but faces critical limitations: (1) sensitivity to hyperparameters requiring extensive manual tuning, (2) capacity gap when distilling from very large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Gustavo Coelho Haase , Paulo Henrique Dourado da Silva

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient approach to transfer the knowledge from a large "teacher" network to a smaller "student" network. Traditional KD methods require lots of labeled training samples and a white-box teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Kien Do , Svetha Venkatesh

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher network to strengthen a smaller student. Existing methods focus on excavating the knowledge hints and transferring the whole knowledge to the student. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chenxin Li , Mingbao Lin , Zhiyuan Ding , Nie Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Liujuan Cao

Multi-microphone speech enhancement using deep neural networks (DNNs) has significantly progressed in recent years. However, many proposed DNN-based speech enhancement algorithms cannot be implemented on devices with limited hardware…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Robert Metzger , Mattes Ohlenbusch , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

Knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly deemed as an effective model compression technique in which a compact model (student) is trained under the supervision of a larger pretrained model or an ensemble of models (teacher). Various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown very promising capabilities in transferring learning representations from large models (teachers) to small models (students). However, as the capacity gap between students and teachers becomes larger,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zengyu Qiu , Xinzhu Ma , Kunlin Yang , Chunya Liu , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi , Wanli Ouyang

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

Recent recommender systems have shown remarkable performance by using an ensemble of heterogeneous models. However, it is exceedingly costly because it requires resources and inference latency proportional to the number of models, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Dongha Lee , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model to enhance its performance. Existing methods often assume that the student model is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhua Zhang , Yi Gao , Ruyu Liu , Xu Cheng , Houxiang Zhang , Shengyong Chen

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

Despite the success of Deep Learning (DL), the deployment of modern DL models requiring large computational power poses a significant problem for resource-constrained systems. This necessitates building compact networks that reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Akshay Kulkarni , Navid Panchi , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Shital Chiddarwar

Knowledge Distillation is a technique which aims to utilize dark knowledge to compress and transfer information from a vast, well-trained neural network (teacher model) to a smaller, less capable neural network (student model) with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Fahad Rahman Amik , Ahnaf Ismat Tasin , Silvia Ahmed , M. M. Lutfe Elahi , Nabeel Mohammed

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become a widely used technique in the field of model compression, which aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a lightweight student model for efficient network development. In addition to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Weichao Lan , Yiu-ming Cheung , Qing Xu , Buhua Liu , Zhikai Hu , Mengke Li , Zhenghua Chen

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

Knowledge distillation aims to enhance the performance of a lightweight student model by exploiting the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher model. However, in the traditional knowledge distillation, teacher predictions are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shiya Luo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) improves the performance of a low-complexity student model with the help of a more powerful teacher. The teacher in KD is a black-box model, imparting knowledge to the student only through its predictions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sayantan Chowdhury , Ben Liang , Ali Tizghadam , Ilijc Albanese

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has made remarkable progress in the last few years and become a popular paradigm for model compression and knowledge transfer. However, almost all existing KD algorithms are data-driven, i.e., relying on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Gongfan Fang , Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Xinchao Wang , Da Chen , Mingli Song

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique where a compact student network is taught to mimic the behavior of a complex and highly trained teacher network. In contrast, Mutual Learning (ML) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Usma Niyaz , Deepti R. Bathula

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from large teacher models to compact student models, enabling efficient deployment on resource constrained devices. While diverse KD methods, including response based, feature based, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yinxi Tian , Changwu Huang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to distill the knowledge of a cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities among categories provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Li Yuan , Francis E. H. Tay , Guilin Li , Tao Wang , Jiashi Feng