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We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Qin Shi , Amber Yijia Zheng , Qifan Song , Raymond A. Yeh

Knowledge Distillation is an effective method to transfer the learning across deep neural networks. Typically, the dataset originally used for training the Teacher model is chosen as the "Transfer Set" to conduct the knowledge transfer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Anirban Chakraborty

Neural network ensembles is a simple yet effective approach for enhancing generalization capabilities. The most common method involves independently training multiple neural networks initialized with different weights and then averaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shunsuke Sakai , Shunsuke Tsuge , Tatsuhito Hasegawa

Neural network ensembles have been effectively used to improve generalization by combining the predictions of multiple independently trained models. However, the growing scale and complexity of deep neural networks have led to these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Tim Whitaker

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve state-of-the-art performance on many translation benchmarks. As an active research field in NMT, knowledge distillation is widely applied to enhance the model's performance by transferring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Fusheng Wang , Jianhao Yan , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Ensemble learning has proven effective in improving predictive performance and estimating uncertainty in neural networks. However, conventional ensemble methods often suffer from redundant parameter usage and computational inefficiencies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Arnav Kharbanda , Advait Chandorkar

Knowledge distillation with multiple teachers is increasingly used to improve robustness, efficiency, and safety, yet existing approaches rely largely on heuristic or implementation-specific weighting schemes. This paper develops an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Aaron R. Flouro , Shawn P. Chadwick

Pre-trained language models have become an integral component of question-answering systems, achieving remarkable performance. However, for practical deployment, it is crucial to perform knowledge distillation to maintain high performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Wenjie Zhou , Zhenxin Ding , Xiaodong Zhang , Haibo Shi , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

Offline distillation is a two-stage pipeline that requires expensive resources to train a teacher network and then distill the knowledge to a student for deployment. Online knowledge distillation, on the other hand, is a one-stage strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Baitan Shao , Ying Chen

Modern deep neural networks can produce badly calibrated predictions, especially when train and test distributions are mismatched. Training an ensemble of models and averaging their predictions can help alleviate these issues. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Asa Cooper Stickland , Iain Murray

Knowledge distillation is effective to train small and generalisable network models for meeting the low-memory and fast running requirements. Existing offline distillation methods rely on a strong pre-trained teacher, which enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Xu Lan , Xiatian Zhu , Shaogang Gong

Recent research has found that knowledge distillation can be effective in reducing the size of a network and in increasing generalization. A pre-trained, large teacher network, for example, was shown to be able to bootstrap a student model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hyun Seung Lee , Christian Wallraven

Pruning aims to reduce the number of parameters while maintaining performance close to the original network. This work proposes a novel \emph{self-distillation} based pruning strategy, whereby the representational similarity between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-01 James O' Neill , Sourav Dutta , Haytham Assem

Transformers recently are adapted from the community of natural language processing as a promising substitute of convolution-based neural networks for visual learning tasks. However, its supremacy degenerates given an insufficient amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sucheng Ren , Zhengqi Gao , Tianyu Hua , Zihui Xue , Yonglong Tian , Shengfeng He , Hang Zhao

Traditional knowledge distillation uses a two-stage training strategy to transfer knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to a compact student model, which relies heavily on the pre-trained teacher. Recent online knowledge distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Guile Wu , Shaogang Gong

Scaling neural networks to "large" sizes, with billions of parameters, has been shown to yield impressive results on many challenging problems. However, the inference cost incurred by such large models often prevents their application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ankit Singh Rawat , Manzil Zaheer , Aditya Krishna Menon , Amr Ahmed , Sanjiv Kumar

Knowledge distillation is of key importance to launching multilingual pre-trained language models for real applications. To support cost-effective language inference in multilingual settings, we propose AMTSS, an adaptive multi-teacher…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Qianglong Chen , Feng Ji , Feng-Lin Li , Guohai Xu , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Yin Zhang

Knowledge Distillation is becoming one of the primary trends among neural network compression algorithms to improve the generalization performance of a smaller student model with guidance from a larger teacher model. This momentous rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sumanth Chennupati , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen

Compressing deep neural network (DNN) models becomes a very important and necessary technique for real-world applications, such as deploying those models on mobile devices. Knowledge distillation is one of the most popular methods for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Makoto Takamoto , Yusuke Morishita , Hitoshi Imaoka

Ensemble learning is traditionally justified as a variance-reduction strategy, explaining its strong performance for unstable predictors such as decision trees. This explanation, however, does not account for ensembles constructed from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Ernest Fokoué