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Knowledge distillation can lead to deploy-friendly networks against the plagued computational complexity problem, but previous methods neglect the feature hierarchy in detectors. Motivated by this, we propose a general framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yangyang Qin , Hefei Ling , Zhenghai He , Yuxuan Shi , Lei Wu

Self-supervised learning has achieved remarkable success in learning visual representations from clean data, yet remains challenging when clean observations are sparse or not available at all. In this paper, we demonstrate that pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Konstantinos Alexis , Giorgos Giannopoulos , Dimitrios Gunopulos

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to produce portable and efficient neural networks which can be well applied on edge devices for computer vision tasks. However, almost all top-performing knowledge distillation methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu , Huiyu Zhou

Knowledge distillation methods compress models by training a student network using the classification outputs of a high quality teacher model, but can fail to effectively transfer the properties of computer vision foundation models from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Evelyn J. Mannix , Liam Hodgkinson , Howard Bondell

Knowledge distillation (KD) involves transferring knowledge from a pre-trained heavy teacher model to a lighter student model, thereby reducing the inference cost while maintaining comparable effectiveness. Prior KD techniques typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jhe-Hao Lin , Yi Yao , Chan-Feng Hsu , Hongxia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient framework for compressing large-scale pre-trained language models. Recent years have seen a surge of research aiming to improve KD by leveraging Contrastive Learning, Intermediate Layer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Md Akmal Haidar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Abbas Ghaddar , Khalil Bibi , Philippe Langlais , Pascal Poupart

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

Distribution matching distillation (DMD) facilitates few-step image generation by aligning a distilled student with a reference multi-step teacher. In practice, however, optimizing DMD can reduce sample diversity in few-step synthesis, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tianhe Wu , Ruibin Li , Lei Zhang , Kede Ma

In this paper, we propose the first self-distillation framework for general object detection, termed LGD (Label-Guided self-Distillation). Previous studies rely on a strong pretrained teacher to provide instructive knowledge that could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Peizhen Zhang , Zijian Kang , Tong Yang , Xiangyu Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Jian Sun

Large-scale self-supervised pre-trained speech encoders outperform conventional approaches in speech recognition and translation tasks. Due to the high cost of developing these large models, building new encoders for new tasks and deploying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Heng-Jui Chang , Ning Dong , Ruslan Mavlyutov , Sravya Popuri , Yu-An Chung

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown very promising capabilities in transferring learning representations from large models (teachers) to small models (students). However, as the capacity gap between students and teachers becomes larger,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zengyu Qiu , Xinzhu Ma , Kunlin Yang , Chunya Liu , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi , Wanli Ouyang

Segmenting or detecting objects in sparse Lidar point clouds are two important tasks in autonomous driving to allow a vehicle to act safely in its 3D environment. The best performing methods in 3D semantic segmentation or object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Corentin Sautier , Gilles Puy , Spyros Gidaris , Alexandre Boulch , Andrei Bursuc , Renaud Marlet

Knowledge distillation is one of the most effective methods for model compression. Previous studies have focused on the student model effectively training the predictive distribution of the teacher model. However, during training, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Junseok Lee , Nahoon Kim , Sangyong Lee , Chang-Jae Chun

Advances in self-distillation have shown that when knowledge is distilled from a teacher to a student using the same deep learning (DL) architecture, the student performance can surpass the teacher particularly when the network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Muhammad Haseeb Aslam , Clara Martinez , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Koerich , Ali Etemad , Eric Granger

Recently, there has been increasing interest in the challenge of how to discriminatively vectorize graphs. To address this, we propose a method called Iterative Graph Self-Distillation (IGSD) which learns graph-level representation in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Hanlin Zhang , Shuai Lin , Weiyang Liu , Pan Zhou , Jian Tang , Xiaodan Liang , Eric P. Xing

Knowledge distillation has become an important approach to obtain a compact yet effective model. To achieve this goal, a small student model is trained to exploit the knowledge of a large well-trained teacher model. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhiqiang Liu , Chengkai Huang , Yanxia Liu

Despite exciting progress in pre-training for visual-linguistic (VL) representations, very few aspire to a small VL model. In this paper, we study knowledge distillation (KD) to effectively compress a transformer-based large VL model into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Lijuan Wang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widely-used technology to inherit information from cumbersome teacher models to compact student models, consequently realizing model compression and acceleration. Compared with image classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Gang Li , Xiang Li , Yujie Wang , Shanshan Zhang , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang

State-of-the-art frameworks in self-supervised learning have recently shown that fully utilizing transformer-based models can lead to performance boost compared to conventional CNN models. Striving to maximize the mutual information of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Jiho Jang , Seonhoon Kim , Kiyoon Yoo , Chaerin Kong , Jangho Kim , Nojun Kwak

Knowledge Distillation is becoming one of the primary trends among neural network compression algorithms to improve the generalization performance of a smaller student model with guidance from a larger teacher model. This momentous rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sumanth Chennupati , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen