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In the history of knowledge distillation, the focus has once shifted over time from logit-based to feature-based approaches. However, this transition has been revisited with the advent of Decoupled Knowledge Distillation (DKD), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Bowen Zheng , Ran Cheng

Federated Learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm that enables the collaborative training of a shared global model across distributed clients while keeping the data decentralized. Recent works on designing systems for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohak Chadha , Pulkit Khera , Jianfeng Gu , Osama Abboud , Michael Gerndt

While Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been recognized as a useful tool in many visual tasks, such as supervised classification and self-supervised representation learning, the main drawback of a vanilla KD framework is its mechanism, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Zhiqiang Shen , Eric Xing

Compact models can be effectively trained through Knowledge Distillation (KD), a technique that transfers knowledge from larger, high-performing teacher models. Two key challenges in Knowledge Distillation (KD) are: 1) balancing learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeeshan Hayder , Ali Cheraghian , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to promote a smaller student model. Existing efforts guide the distillation by matching their prediction logits, feature embedding, etc., while leaving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yiyang Liu , Chenxin Li , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become a well established paradigm for compressing deep neural networks. The typical way of conducting knowledge distillation is to train the student network under the supervision of the teacher network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jie Song , Ying Chen , Jingwen Ye , Mingli Song

While massive valuable deep models trained on large-scale data have been released to facilitate the artificial intelligence community, they may encounter attacks in deployment which leads to privacy leakage of training data. In this work,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Bochao Liu , Pengju Wang , Shikun Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

Distributed learning frameworks often rely on exchanging model parameters across workers, instead of revealing their raw data. A prime example is federated learning that exchanges the gradients or weights of each neural network model. Under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Seungeun Oh , Mehdi Bennis , Seong-Lyun Kim

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a general neural network training approach that uses a teacher model to guide the student model. Existing works mainly study KD from the network output side (e.g., trying to design a better KD loss function),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Huan Wang , Suhas Lohit , Mike Jones , Yun Fu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely applied in semantic segmentation to compress large models, but conventional approaches primarily preserve in-domain accuracy while neglecting out-of-domain generalization, which is essential under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chonghua Lv , Dong Zhao , Shuang Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Data heterogeneity among Federated Learning (FL) users poses a significant challenge, resulting in reduced global model performance. The community has designed various techniques to tackle this issue, among which Knowledge Distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Momin Ahmad Khan , Yasra Chandio , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

Recently, deep learning-based models have been widely studied for click-through rate (CTR) prediction and lead to improved prediction accuracy in many industrial applications. However, current research focuses primarily on building complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jieming Zhu , Jinyang Liu , Weiqi Li , Jincai Lai , Xiuqiang He , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Deep neural models in recent years have been successful in almost every field, including extremely complex problem statements. However, these models are huge in size, with millions (and even billions) of parameters, thus demanding more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lin Wang , Kuk-Jin Yoon

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

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

Semi-supervised regression (SSR), which aims to predict continuous scores for samples while reducing the reliance on large-scale labeled data, has recently attracted considerable attention across various applications, including computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ye Su , Hezhe Qiao , Wei Huang , Lin Chen

The advancement of knowledge distillation has played a crucial role in enabling the transfer of knowledge from larger teacher models to smaller and more efficient student models, and is particularly beneficial for online and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wanli Ma , Oktay Karakus , Paul L. Rosin

Significant memory and computational requirements of large deep neural networks restrict their application on edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a prominent model compression technique for deep neural networks in which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pranav Sharma , Ali Ghodsi

Black-Box Knowledge Distillation (B2KD) is a formulated problem for cloud-to-edge model compression with invisible data and models hosted on the server. B2KD faces challenges such as limited Internet exchange and edge-cloud disparity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jing Ma , Xiang Xiang , Ke Wang , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li