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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

Knowledge distillation, the technique of transferring knowledge from large, complex models to smaller ones, marks a pivotal step towards efficient AI deployment. Distilling Step-by-Step~(DSS), a novel method utilizing chain-of-thought~(CoT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xin Chen , Hanxian Huang , Yanjun Gao , Yi Wang , Jishen Zhao , Ke Ding

Recently, there have been significant improvements in the accuracy of CNN models for semantic segmentation. However, these models are often heavy and suffer from low inference speed, which limits their practical application. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Minglong Li , Lianlei Shan , Weiqiang Wang , Ke Lv , Bin Luo , Si-Bao Chen

Knowledge distillation aims to transfer useful information from a teacher network to a student network, with the primary goal of improving the student's performance for the task at hand. Over the years, there has a been a deluge of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Utkarsh Ojha , Yuheng Li , Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Yingyu Liang , Yong Jae Lee

Several recent studies have elucidated why knowledge distillation (KD) improves model performance. However, few have researched the other advantages of KD in addition to its improving model performance. In this study, we have attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hyeongrok Han , Siwon Kim , Hyun-Soo Choi , Sungroh Yoon

Knowledge distillation refers to a technique of transferring the knowledge from a large learned model or an ensemble of learned models to a small model. This method relies on access to the original training set, which might not always be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Xiaoyang Qu , Jianzong Wang , Jing Xiao

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain

Deep pre-training and fine-tuning models (like BERT, OpenAI GPT) have demonstrated excellent results in question answering areas. However, due to the sheer amount of model parameters, the inference speed of these models is very slow. How to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Ze Yang , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Wutao Lin , Daxin Jiang

Knowledge distillation can be a cost-effective technique to distill knowledge in Large Language Models, if the teacher output logits can be pre-computed and cached. However, successfully applying this to pre-training remains largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Anshumann , Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Akhil Kedia , Jinwoo Ahn , Taehwak Kwon , Kangwook Lee , Haejun Lee , Joohyung Lee

Compared to large speech foundation models, small distilled models exhibit degraded noise robustness. The student's robustness can be improved by introducing noise at the inputs during pre-training. Despite this, using the standard…

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown great promise in transferring knowledge from larger teacher models to smaller student models. However, existing KD strategies for large language models often minimize output distributions between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuncheng Song , Liang Ding , Changtong Zan , Shujian Huang

Knowledge distillation with unlabeled examples is a powerful training paradigm for generating compact and lightweight student models in applications where the amount of labeled data is limited but one has access to a large pool of unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Vasilis Kontonis , Fotis Iliopoulos , Khoa Trinh , Cenk Baykal , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee

Knowledge distillation constitutes a potent methodology for condensing substantial neural networks into more compact and efficient counterparts. Within this context, softmax regression representation learning serves as a widely embraced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Huayu Li , Xiwen Chen , Gregory Ditzler , Janet Roveda , Ao Li

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 deals with the problem of training a smaller model (Student) from a high capacity source model (Teacher) so as to retain most of its performance. Existing approaches use either the training data or meta-data extracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Vaisakh Shaj , R. Venkatesh Babu , Anirban Chakraborty

This paper addresses the problem of model compression via knowledge distillation. To this end, we propose a new knowledge distillation method based on transferring feature statistics, specifically the channel-wise mean and variance, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Jing Yang , Brais Martinez , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Modern neural networks are powerful predictive models. However, when it comes to recognizing that they may be wrong about their predictions, they perform poorly. For example, for one of the most common activation functions, the ReLU and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Shervin Manzuri Shalmani , Fei Chiang , Rong Zheng

Knowledge distillation transfers knowledge from a high capacity teacher to a compact student using a mixture of hard and soft losses. On imbalanced data, a fixed weighting between hard and soft losses becomes brittle the learning process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Anh B. H. Nguyen , Ba Tho Phan , Viet Cuong Ta

This paper proposes the DistillCSE framework, which performs contrastive learning under the self-training paradigm with knowledge distillation. The potential advantage of DistillCSE is its self-enhancing feature: using a base model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Jiahao Xu , Wei Shao , Lihui Chen , Lemao Liu

Algorithmic efficiency techniques such as distillation (\cite{hinton2015distillation}) are useful in improving model quality without increasing serving costs, provided a larger teacher model is available for a smaller student model to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Khoa Trinh , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee