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As a promising solution for model compression, knowledge distillation (KD) has been applied in recommender systems (RS) to reduce inference latency. Traditional solutions first train a full teacher model from the training data, and then…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Gang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Fuli Feng , Sheng Zhou , Xiangnan He

Continual learning refers to a dynamical framework in which a model receives a stream of non-stationary data over time and must adapt to new data while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Unluckily, neural networks fail to meet these…

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Compact models can be effectively trained through Knowledge Distillation (KD), a technique that transfers knowledge from larger, high-performing teacher models. Two key challenges in Knowledge Distillation (KD) are: 1) balancing learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeeshan Hayder , Ali Cheraghian , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

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) has been widely applied in semantic segmentation to compress large models, but conventional approaches primarily preserve in-domain accuracy while neglecting out-of-domain generalization, which is essential under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chonghua Lv , Dong Zhao , Shuang Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is an effective framework for compressing deep learning models, realized by a student-teacher paradigm requiring small student networks to mimic the soft target generated by well-trained teachers. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

In this paper, we tackle a new problem: how to transfer knowledge from the pre-trained cumbersome yet well-performed CNN-based model to learn a compact Vision Transformer (ViT)-based model while maintaining its learning capacity? Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xu Zheng , Yunhao Luo , Pengyuan Zhou , Lin Wang

Knowledge distillation, i.e., one classifier being trained on the outputs of another classifier, is an empirically very successful technique for knowledge transfer between classifiers. It has even been observed that classifiers learn much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Mary Phuong , Christoph H. Lampert

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) aims to transfer knowledge in a teacher-student framework, by providing the predictions of the teacher network to the student network in the training stage to help the student network generalize better. It can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Knowledge distillation has attracted a great deal of interest recently to compress pre-trained language models. However, existing knowledge distillation methods suffer from two limitations. First, the student model simply imitates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Siyue Wu , Hongzhan Chen , Xiaojun Quan , Qifan Wang , Rui Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to improve the test accuracy of a "student" network, by training it to mimic the soft probabilities of a trained "teacher" network. Yet, it has been shown in recent work that, despite being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Aditya Krishna Menon , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Hossein Mobahi , Sanjiv Kumar

In this study, we aim to predict the plausible future action steps given an observation of the past and study the task of instructional activity anticipation. Unlike previous anticipation tasks that aim at action label prediction, our work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Zhengyuan Yang , Jingen Liu , Jing Huang , Xiaodong He , Tao Mei , Chenliang Xu , Jiebo Luo

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

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 has shown very promising abil-ity in transferring learned representation from the largermodel (teacher) to the smaller one (student).Despitemany efforts, prior methods ignore the important role ofretaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Li Liu , Qingle Huang , Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

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 is initially introduced to utilize additional supervision from a single teacher model for the student model training. To boost the student performance, some recent variants attempt to exploit diverse knowledge sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hailin Zhang , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Multi-teacher knowledge distillation (KD), a more effective technique than traditional single-teacher methods, transfers knowledge from expert teachers to a compact student model using logit or feature matching. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Amir M. Mansourian , Amir Mohammad Babaei , Shohreh Kasaei

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