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Deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained edge devices remains a major challenge in smart agriculture due to the trade-off between computational efficiency and recognition accuracy. To address this challenge, this study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Phi-Hung Hoang , Nam-Thuan Trinh , Van-Manh Tran , Thi-Thu-Hong Phan

The representation gap between teacher and student is an emerging topic in knowledge distillation (KD). To reduce the gap and improve the performance, current methods often resort to complicated training schemes, loss functions, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tao Huang , Yuan Zhang , Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

The rise of sixth generation (6G) wireless networks promises to deliver ultra-reliable, low-latency, and energy-efficient communications, sensing, and computing. However, traditional centralized artificial intelligence (AI) paradigms are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Nhan Thanh Nguyen , Mengyuan Ma , Nir Shlezinger , Junil Choi , Yonina C. Eldar , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti

Knowledge distillation is a technique to enhance the generalization ability of a student model by exploiting outputs from a teacher model. Recently, feature-map based variants explore knowledge transfer between manually assigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Yuan Zhang , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher network to a compact and efficient student network, making it suitable for deployment on resource-limited media terminals. However, traditional KD methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xinlei Huang , Jialiang Tang , Xubin Zheng , Jinjia Zhou , Wenxin Yu , Ning Jiang

We study how to train a student deep neural network for visual recognition by distilling knowledge from a blackbox teacher model in a data-efficient manner. Progress on this problem can significantly reduce the dependence on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Dongdong Wang , Yandong Li , Liqiang Wang , Boqing Gong

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher to a compact yet well-performing student. Previous KD practices for pre-trained language models mainly transfer knowledge by aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lean Wang , Lei Li , Xu Sun

Much of the focus in the area of knowledge distillation has been on distilling knowledge from a larger teacher network to a smaller student network. However, there has been little research on how the concept of distillation can be leveraged…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Zhong Qiu Lin , Alexander Wong

Ensemble knowledge distillation can extract knowledge from multiple teacher models and encode it into a single student model. Many existing methods learn and distill the student model on labeled data only. However, the teacher models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

Existing knowledge distillation (KD) methods have demonstrated their ability in achieving student network performance on par with their teachers. However, the knowledge gap between the teacher and student remains significant and may hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Shuoxi Zhang , Zijian Song , Kun He

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as an effective model compression technique in deep learning, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a large teacher model to a compact student model. While KD has demonstrated significant success,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Suyoung Kim , Seonguk Park , Junhoo Lee , Nojun Kwak

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

This study proposes a method for knowledge distillation (KD) of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) into smaller, more efficient, and accurate neural networks. We specifically target the challenge of deploying these models on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ehsan Latif , Luyang Fang , Ping Ma , Xiaoming Zhai

With the improvement of AI chips (e.g., GPU, TPU, and NPU) and the fast development of the Internet of Things (IoT), some robust deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually composed of millions or even hundreds of millions of parameters. Such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jun-Teng Yang , Sheng-Che Kao , Scott C. -H. Huang

Deep cascaded architectures for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acceleration have shown remarkable success in providing high-quality reconstruction. However, as the number of cascades increases, the improvements in reconstruction tend to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Matcha Naga Gayathri , Sriprabha Ramanarayanan , Mohammad Al Fahim , Rahul G S , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Offline distillation is a two-stage pipeline that requires expensive resources to train a teacher network and then distill the knowledge to a student for deployment. Online knowledge distillation, on the other hand, is a one-stage strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Baitan Shao , Ying Chen

Compared to traditional learning from scratch, knowledge distillation sometimes makes the DNN achieve superior performance. This paper provides a new perspective to explain the success of knowledge distillation, i.e., quantifying knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Quanshi Zhang , Xu Cheng , Yilan Chen , Zhefan Rao

Considering the fact that students have different abilities to understand the knowledge imparted by teachers, a multi-granularity distillation mechanism is proposed for transferring more understandable knowledge for student networks. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Baitan Shao , Ying Chen

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

Model distillation is an effective and widely used technique to transfer knowledge from a teacher to a student network. The typical application is to transfer from a powerful large network or ensemble to a small network, that is better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Ying Zhang , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Huchuan Lu