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Knowledge distillation aims to enhance the performance of a lightweight student model by exploiting the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher model. However, in the traditional knowledge distillation, teacher predictions are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shiya Luo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in modeling graph structured data, owing to its impressive performance in a wide range of practical applications. Recently, knowledge distillation (KD) for GNNs has enabled remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yuanxin Zhuang , Lingjuan Lyu , Chuan Shi , Carl Yang , Lichao Sun

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a powerful technique for model compression, enabling lightweight student networks to benefit from the performance of redundant teacher networks. However, the inherent capacity gap often limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yiyun Zhou , Jingwei Shi , Mingjing Xu , Zhonghua Jiang , Jingyuan Chen

Knowledge distillation is a learning paradigm for boosting resource-efficient graph neural networks (GNNs) using more expressive yet cumbersome teacher models. Past work on distillation for GNNs proposed the Local Structure Preserving loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chaitanya K. Joshi , Fayao Liu , Xu Xun , Jie Lin , Chuan-Sheng Foo

Knowledge distillation (KD) techniques have emerged as a powerful tool for transferring expertise from complex teacher models to lightweight student models, particularly beneficial for deploying high-performance models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Paul Agbaje , Arkajyoti Mitra , Afia Anjum , Pranali Khose , Ebelechukwu Nwafor , Habeeb Olufowobi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have revolutionized graph-based machine learning, but their heavy computational demands pose challenges for latency-sensitive edge devices in practical industrial applications. In response, a new wave of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Weigang Lu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Yaming Yang

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a teacher network to a student by enforcing the student to mimic the outputs of the pretrained teacher on training data. However, data samples are not always accessible in many cases due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiang Deng , Zhongfei Zhang

In recent years, deep neural networks have been successful in both industry and academia, especially for computer vision tasks. The great success of deep learning is mainly due to its scalability to encode large-scale data and to maneuver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Jianping Gou , Baosheng Yu , Stephen John Maybank , Dacheng Tao

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

Recent years have witnessed the great success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in handling graph-related tasks. However, MLPs remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial applications due to their desirable inference efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Tianyu Fan , Stan Z. Li

Graph unlearning has emerged as a pivotal method to delete information from a pre-trained graph neural network (GNN). One may delete nodes, a class of nodes, edges, or a class of edges. An unlearning method enables the GNN model to comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yash Sinha , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

Distilling high-accuracy Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to low-latency multilayer perceptions (MLPs) on graph tasks has become a hot research topic. However, conventional MLP learning relies almost exclusively on graph nodes and fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Taiqiang Wu , Zhe Zhao , Jiahao Wang , Xingyu Bai , Lei Wang , Ngai Wong , Yujiu Yang

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are energy-efficient computing architectures that exchange spikes for processing information, unlike classical Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). Due to this, SNNs are better suited for real-life deployments.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ravi Kumar Kushawaha , Saurabh Kumar , Biplab Banerjee , Rajbabu Velmurugan

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

Ensemble models comprising of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have shown significant improvements in model generalization but at the cost of large computation and memory requirements. In this paper, we present a framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Umar Asif , Jianbin Tang , Stefan Harrer

To bridge the gaps between powerful Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and lightweight Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLPs), GNN-to-MLP Knowledge Distillation (KD) proposes to distill knowledge from a well-trained teacher GNN into a student MLP. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Lirong Wu , Yunfan Liu , Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Stan Z. Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in collaborative recommendation through their ability to conduct high-order representation smoothing, effectively capturing structural information within users' interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Guoxuan Chen , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

With the success of deep neural networks, knowledge distillation which guides the learning of a small student network from a large teacher network is being actively studied for model compression and transfer learning. However, few studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Wonchul Son , Jaemin Na , Junyong Choi , Wonjun Hwang

Deep neural network architectures have attained remarkable improvements in scene understanding tasks. Utilizing an efficient model is one of the most important constraints for limited-resource devices. Recently, several compression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Mahdi Ghorbani , Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have improved NLP tasks significantly, but training and maintaining such networks could be costly. Model compression techniques, such as, knowledge distillation (KD), have been proposed to address the issue;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manas Mohanty , Tanya Roosta , Peyman Passban