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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 (KD) compresses deep neural networks by transferring task-related knowledge from cumbersome pre-trained teacher models to compact student models. However, current KD methods for super-resolution (SR) networks overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yun Zhang , Wei Li , Simiao Li , Hanting Chen , Zhijun Tu , Wenjia Wang , Bingyi Jing , Shaohui Lin , Jie Hu

Continual learning, involving sequential training on diverse tasks, often faces catastrophic forgetting. While knowledge distillation-based approaches exhibit notable success in preventing forgetting, we pinpoint a limitation in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zenglin Shi , Pei Liu , Tong Su , Yunpeng Wu , Kuien Liu , Yu Song , Meng Wang

Quantization-Aware Training (QAT), combined with Knowledge Distillation (KD), holds immense promise for compressing models for edge deployment. However, joint optimization for precision-sensitive image restoration (IR) to recover visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 S. M. A. Sharif , Abdur Rehman , Seongwan Kim , Jaeho Lee

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge in a teacher-student framework, by providing the predictions of the teacher network to the student network in the training stage to help the student network generalize better. It can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Knowledge distillation aims to transfer knowledge to the student model by utilizing the predictions/features of the teacher model, and feature-based distillation has recently shown its superiority over logit-based distillation. However, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one proposed solution to large model sizes and slow inference speed in semantic segmentation. In our research we identify 25 proposed distillation loss terms from 14 publications in the last 4 years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Onno Niemann , Christopher Vox , Thorben Werner

Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a strong zero-shot generalization capability on unseen-domain data. However, adapting pre-trained VLMs to a sequence of downstream tasks often leads to the forgetting of previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yu-Chu Yu , Chi-Pin Huang , Jr-Jen Chen , Kai-Po Chang , Yung-Hsuan Lai , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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 2022-07-19 Ahmad Sajedi , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

We propose an efficient way to output better calibrated uncertainty scores from neural networks. The Distilled Dropout Network (DDN) makes standard (non-Bayesian) neural networks more introspective by adding a new training loss which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Corina Gurau , Alex Bewley , Ingmar Posner

Knowledge distillation as a broad class of methods has led to the development of lightweight and memory efficient models, using a pre-trained model with a large capacity (teacher network) to train a smaller model (student network).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Eun Som Jeon , Hongjun Choi , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Knowledge distillation (KD) has witnessed its powerful capability in learning compact models in object detection. Previous KD methods for object detection mostly focus on imitating deep features within the imitation regions instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhaohui Zheng , Rongguang Ye , Ping Wang , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Deep Neural Network (DNN) based super-resolution algorithms have greatly improved the quality of the generated images. However, these algorithms often yield significant artifacts when dealing with real-world super-resolution problems due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Kangfu Mei , Shenglong Ye , Rui Huang

Existing Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods often align feature information between teacher and student by exploring meaningful feature processing and loss functions. However, due to the difference in feature distributions between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Wang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Weilun Feng , Jiarui Zhao , Chengqing Yu , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

Harvesting dense pixel-level annotations to train deep neural networks for semantic segmentation is extremely expensive and unwieldy at scale. While learning from synthetic data where labels are readily available sounds promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Zuxuan Wu , Xintong Han , Yen-Liang Lin , Mustafa Gkhan Uzunbas , Tom Goldstein , Ser Nam Lim , Larry S. Davis

Transformer-based encoder-decoder models have achieved remarkable success in image-to-image transfer tasks, particularly in image restoration. However, their high computational complexity-manifested in elevated FLOPs and parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yongheng Zhang , Danfeng Yan

In recent years, current mainstream feature masking distillation methods mainly function by reconstructing selectively masked regions of a student network from the feature maps of a teacher network. In these methods, attention mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Zhourui Zhang , Jun Li , Zhijian Wu , Jifeng Shen , Jianhua Xu

With the increasing popularity of deep learning on edge devices, compressing large neural networks to meet the hardware requirements of resource-constrained devices became a significant research direction. Numerous compression methodologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kuluhan Binici , Nam Trung Pham , Tulika Mitra , Karianto Leman

The recent flourish of deep learning in various tasks is largely accredited to the rich and accessible labeled data. Nonetheless, massive supervision remains a luxury for many real applications, boosting great interest in label-scarce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Kai Li , Yulun Zhang , Kunpeng Li , Yun Fu