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In this paper, we analyze the feature-based knowledge distillation for recommendation from the frequency perspective. By defining knowledge as different frequency components of the features, we theoretically demonstrate that regular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhangchi Zhu , Wei Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has proven highly effective for compressing large models and enhancing the performance of smaller ones. However, its effectiveness diminishes in cross-modal scenarios, such as vision-to-language distillation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Junhong Liu , Yuan Zhang , Tao Huang , Wenchao Xu , Renyu Yang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique for transferring knowledge from complex teacher models to simpler student models, significantly enhancing model efficiency and accuracy. It has demonstrated substantial advancements in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Junjie Yang , Junhao Song , Xudong Han , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Yichao Zhang , Qian Niu , Benji Peng , Keyu Chen , Ming Liu

Semantic segmentation requires a holistic understanding of the physical world, as it assigns semantic labels to spatially continuous and structurally coherent objects rather than to isolated pixels. However, existing data-free knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hongxuan Sun , Tao Wu

This paper proposes a new knowledge distillation method tailored for image semantic segmentation, termed Intra- and Inter-Class Knowledge Distillation (I2CKD). The focus of this method is on capturing and transferring knowledge between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ayoub Karine , Thibault Napoléon , Maher Jridi

Knowledge distillation is a common paradigm for transferring capabilities from larger models to smaller ones. While traditional distillation methods leverage a probabilistic divergence over the output of the teacher and student models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Prajjwal Bhattarai , Mohammad Amjad , Dmytro Zhylko , Tuka Alhanai

Knowledge distillation is an attractive approach for learning compact deep neural networks, which learns a lightweight student model by distilling knowledge from a complex teacher model. Attention-based knowledge distillation is a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Cuong Pham , Van-Anh Nguyen , Trung Le , Dinh Phung , Gustavo Carneiro , Thanh-Toan Do

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been proven to be a simple and effective tool for training compact models. Almost all KD variants for dense prediction tasks align the student and teacher networks' feature maps in the spatial domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Changyong Shu , Yifan Liu , Jianfei Gao , Zheng Yan , Chunhua Shen

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

Semantic segmentation benchmarks in the realm of autonomous driving are dominated by large pre-trained transformers, yet their widespread adoption is impeded by substantial computational costs and prolonged training durations. To lift this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ruiping Liu , Kailun Yang , Alina Roitberg , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Huayao Liu , Yaonan Wang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

In recent years, knowledge distillation methods based on contrastive learning have achieved promising results on image classification and object detection tasks. However, in this line of research, we note that less attention is paid to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Jiawei Fan , Chao Li , Xiaolong Liu , Meina Song , Anbang Yao

Recent knowledge distillation (KD) methods for semantic segmentation introduce increasingly complex hand-crafted objectives, yet are typically evaluated under fixed iteration schedules. These objectives substantially increase per-iteration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Muhammad Ali , Kevin Alexander Laube , Madan Ravi Ganesh , Lukas Schott , Niclas Popp , Thomas Brox

Knowledge distillation is a method of transferring the knowledge from a complex deep neural network (DNN) to a smaller and faster DNN, while preserving its accuracy. Recent variants of knowledge distillation include teaching assistant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Minghong Gao

In this paper, we introduce a novel knowledge distillation approach for the semantic segmentation task. Unlike previous methods that rely on power-trained teachers or other modalities to provide additional knowledge, our approach does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shoumeng Qiu , Jie Chen , Xinrun Li , Ru Wan , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

We survey various knowledge distillation (KD) strategies for simple classification tasks and implement a set of techniques that claim state-of-the-art accuracy. Our experiments using standardized model architectures, fixed compute budgets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Fabian Ruffy , Karanbir Chahal

Most existing federated learning algorithms are based on the vanilla FedAvg scheme. However, with the increase of data complexity and the number of model parameters, the amount of communication traffic and the number of iteration rounds for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiaolin Zheng , Senci Ying , Fei Zheng , Jianwei Yin , Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Fengqin Dong

Knowledge distillation is a mainstream algorithm in model compression by transferring knowledge from the larger model (teacher) to the smaller model (student) to improve the performance of student. Despite many efforts, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muhe Ding , Jianlong Wu , Xue Dong , Xiaojie Li , Pengda Qin , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

Person re-identification (ReID) is aimed at identifying the same person across videos captured from different cameras. In the view that networks extracting global features using ordinary network architectures are difficult to extract local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Pengyuan Ren , Jianmin Li

Knowledge distillation can lead to deploy-friendly networks against the plagued computational complexity problem, but previous methods neglect the feature hierarchy in detectors. Motivated by this, we propose a general framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yangyang Qin , Hefei Ling , Zhenghai He , Yuxuan Shi , Lei Wu