English
Related papers

Related papers: Low-resource Low-footprint Wake-word Detection usi…

200 papers

The massive scale of Wireless Foundation Models (FMs) hinders their real-time deployment on edge devices. This letter moves beyond standard knowledge distillation by introducing a novel Multi-Component Adaptive Knowledge Distillation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Haotian Zhang , Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng

Knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly used to construct synthetic data for training non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models. However, there exists a discrepancy on low-frequency words between the distilled and the original data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Liang Ding , Longyue Wang , Xuebo Liu , Derek F. Wong , Dacheng Tao , Zhaopeng Tu

Second-pass rescoring is employed in most state-of-the-art speech recognition systems. Recently, BERT based models have gained popularity for re-ranking the n-best hypothesis by exploiting the knowledge from masked language model…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Prashanth Gurunath Shivakumar , Jari Kolehmainen , Yile Gu , Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow , Ivan Bulyko

Speaker embeddings are promising identity-related features that can enhance the identity assignment performance of a tracking system by leveraging its spatial predictions, i.e, by performing identity reassignment. Common speaker embedding…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Taous Iatariene , Alexandre Guérin , Romain Serizel

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

With the rise of deep learning, large datasets and complex models have become common, requiring significant computing power. To address this, data distillation has emerged as a technique to quickly train models with lower memory and time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Shivam Sahni , Harsh Patel

Knowledge distillation (KD) is known as a promising solution to compress large language models (LLMs) via transferring their knowledge to smaller models. During this process, white-box KD methods usually minimize the distance between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Songming Zhang , Xue Zhang , Zengkui Sun , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu

Recent advances in model compression have provided procedures for compressing large neural networks to a fraction of their original size while retaining most if not all of their accuracy. However, all of these approaches rely on access to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Raphael Gontijo Lopes , Stefano Fenu , Thad Starner

Language model compression through knowledge distillation has emerged as a promising approach for deploying large language models in resource-constrained environments. However, existing methods often struggle to maintain performance when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Joshua Sakthivel Raju , Sanjay S , Jaskaran Singh Walia , Srinivas Raghav , Vukosi Marivate

Knowledge distillation constitutes a simple yet effective way to improve the performance of a compact student network by exploiting the knowledge of a more powerful teacher. Nevertheless, the knowledge distillation literature remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Shuxuan Guo , Jose M. Alvarez , Mathieu Salzmann

Pretrained language models like BERT have achieved good results on NLP tasks, but are impractical on resource-limited devices due to memory footprint. A large fraction of this footprint comes from the input embeddings with large input…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Sanqiang Zhao , Raghav Gupta , Yang Song , Denny Zhou

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

Data-free knowledge distillation is able to utilize the knowledge learned by a large teacher network to augment the training of a smaller student network without accessing the original training data, avoiding privacy, security, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 He Liu , Yikai Wang , Huaping Liu , Fuchun Sun , Anbang Yao

In this paper we present a technique of NLP to tackle the problem of inference relation (NLI) between pairs of sentences in a target language of choice without a language-specific training dataset. We exploit a generic translation dataset,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Lorenzo Corradi , Alessandro Manenti , Francesca Del Bonifro , Francesco Setti , Dario Del Sorbo

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising avenue to implement deep neural networks in a more energy-efficient way. However, the network architectures of existing SNNs for language tasks are still simplistic and relatively shallow,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Changze Lv , Tianlong Li , Jianhan Xu , Chenxi Gu , Zixuan Ling , Cenyuan Zhang , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang

Efficient models for remote sensing object counting are urgently required for applications in scenarios with limited computing resources, such as drones or embedded systems. A straightforward yet powerful technique to achieve this is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shengqin Jiang , Yuan Gao , Bowen Li , Fengna Cheng , Renlong Hang , Qingshan Liu

It is well known that a speech recognition system that combines multiple acoustic models trained on the same data significantly outperforms a single-model system. Unfortunately, real time speech recognition using a whole ensemble of models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Zhenchuan Yang , Chun Zhang , Weibin Zhang , Jianxiu Jin , Dongpeng Chen

The training of high-quality, robust machine learning models for speech-driven 3D facial animation requires a large, diverse dataset of high-quality audio-animation pairs. To overcome the lack of such a dataset, recent work has introduced…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Zhen Han , Mattias Teye , Derek Yadgaroff , Judith Bütepage

Knowledge distillation becomes a de facto standard to improve the performance of small neural networks. Most of the previous works propose to regress the representational features from the teacher to the student in a one-to-one spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Gang Wang

The burgeoning complexity of contemporary deep learning models, while achieving unparalleled accuracy, has inadvertently introduced deployment challenges in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge distillation, a technique aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar