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Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to learn a compact student network using knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher network, where both networks are trained on data from the same distribution. However, in practical applications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Gang Niu , Hongyuan Zhu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chen Gong , Masashi Sugiyama

Speech denoising is a generally adopted and impactful task, appearing in many common and everyday-life use cases. Although there are very powerful methods published, most of those are too complex for deployment in everyday and low-resources…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Diep Luong , Mikko Heikkinen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

This work introduces a novel knowledge distillation framework for classification tasks where information on existing subclasses is available and taken into consideration. In classification tasks with a small number of classes or binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Ahmad Sajedi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Knowledge distillation is a powerful method for model compression, enabling the efficient deployment of complex deep learning models (teachers), including large language models. However, its underlying statistical mechanisms remain unclear,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-28 Luyang Fang , Yongkai Chen , Jiazhang Cai , Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common method for transferring the ``knowledge'' learned by one machine learning model (the \textit{teacher}) into another model (the \textit{student}), where typically, the teacher has a greater capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jie Fu , Xue Geng , Zhijian Duan , Bohan Zhuang , Xingdi Yuan , Adam Trischler , Jie Lin , Chris Pal , Hao Dong

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been extensively used for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks to improve a small model's (a student) generalization by transferring the knowledge from a larger model (a teacher). Although KD methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Aref Jafari , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pascal Poupart , Ali Ghodsi

Knowledge distillation is a widely applicable technique for training a student neural network under the guidance of a trained teacher network. For example, in neural network compression, a high-capacity teacher is distilled to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Frederick Tung , Greg Mori

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for training a small student network to emulate a larger teacher model, such as an ensemble of networks. We show that while knowledge distillation can improve student generalization, it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Alexander A. Alemi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as one of the most promising compression technologies to run advanced deep neural networks on resource-limited devices. In order to train a small network (student) under the guidance of a large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yi Guo , Yiqian He , Xiaoyang Li , Haotong Qin , Van Tung Pham , Yang Zhang , Shouda Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted and effective method for compressing models in object detection tasks. Particularly, feature-based distillation methods have shown remarkable performance. Existing approaches often ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Junfei Yi , Jianxu Mao , Tengfei Liu , Mingjie Li , Hanyu Gu , Hui Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Yaonan Wang

Knowledge distillation~(KD) aims to craft a compact student model that imitates the behavior of a pre-trained teacher in a target domain. Prior KD approaches, despite their gratifying results, have largely relied on the premise that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Gongfan Fang , Yifan Bao , Jie Song , Xinchao Wang , Donglin Xie , Chengchao Shen , Mingli Song

Knowledge distillation is a common technique for improving the performance of a shallow student network by transferring information from a teacher network, which in general, is comparatively large and deep. These teacher networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ishan Mishra , Sethu Vamsi Krishna , Deepak Mishra

Knowledge distillation is a method of transferring the knowledge from a pretrained complex teacher model to a student model, so a smaller network can replace a large teacher network at the deployment stage. To reduce the necessity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mingi Ji , Seungjae Shin , Seunghyun Hwang , Gibeom Park , Il-Chul Moon

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 popular technique to transfer knowledge from a teacher model or ensemble to a student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities/consistency between the class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Zhen Huang , Xu Shen , Jun Xing , Tongliang Liu , Xinmei Tian , Houqiang Li , Bing Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

Unlike existing knowledge distillation methods focus on the baseline settings, where the teacher models and training strategies are not that strong and competing as state-of-the-art approaches, this paper presents a method dubbed DIST to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tao Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Knowledge distillation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. In this process, we typically have multiple types of knowledge extracted from the teacher model. The problem is to make full use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chenglong Wang , Yi Lu , Yongyu Mu , Yimin Hu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Data-free knowledge distillation (KD) helps transfer knowledge from a pre-trained model (known as the teacher model) to a smaller model (known as the student model) without access to the original training data used for training the teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Junyuan Hong , Yi Zeng , Shuyang Yu , Lingjuan Lyu , Ruoxi Jia , Jiayu Zhou

Current approaches for Knowledge Distillation (KD) either directly use training data or sample from the training data distribution. In this paper, we demonstrate effectiveness of 'mismatched' unlabeled stimulus to perform KD for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Mandar Kulkarni , Kalpesh Patil , Shirish Karande

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