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As a fundamental problem, numerous methods are dedicated to the optimization of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), in a multi-user setting. Although traditional model-based optimization methods achieve strong performance, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Longfei Ma , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Zhisheng Yin , Haibo Zhou , Wei Quan

Unlike existing knowledge distillation methods focus on the baseline settings, where the teacher models and training strategies are not that strong and competing as state-of-the-art approaches, this paper presents a method dubbed DIST to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tao Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

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

Many recent works on knowledge distillation have provided ways to transfer the knowledge of a trained network for improving the learning process of a new one, but finding a good technique for knowledge distillation is still an open problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Byeongho Heo , Minsik Lee , Sangdoo Yun , Jin Young Choi

Adversarial distillation in the standard min-max adversarial training framework aims to transfer adversarial robustness from a large, robust teacher network to a compact student. However, existing work often neglects to incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongsin Lee , Hye Won Chung

Knowledge distillation, a widely used model compression technique, works on the basis of transferring knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model. The technique involves jointly optimizing the task specific and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Shreyan Ganguly , Roshan Nayak , Rakshith Rao , Ujan Deb , Prathosh AP

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the most potent ways for model compression. The key idea is to transfer the knowledge from a deep teacher model (T) to a shallower student (S). However, existing methods suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Chen Change Loy

Knowledge distillation aims to compress a powerful yet cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model without much sacrifice of performance. For this purpose, various approaches have been proposed over the past few years,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Hailin Zhang , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

Existing language model compression methods mostly use a simple L2 loss to distill knowledge in the intermediate representations of a large BERT model to a smaller one. Although widely used, this objective by design assumes that all the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Siqi Sun , Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Yuwei Fang , Shuohang Wang , Jingjing Liu

The study of physical adversarial patches is crucial for identifying vulnerabilities in AI-based recognition systems and developing more robust deep learning models. While recent research has focused on improving patch stealthiness for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Wei Liu , Yonglin Wu , Chaoqun Li , Zhuodong Liu , Huanqian Yan

We investigate whether knowledge distillation (KD) from multiple heterogeneous teacher models can enhance the generation of transferable adversarial examples. A lightweight student model is trained using two KD strategies: curriculum-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Siddhartha Pradhan , Shikshya Shiwakoti , Neha Bathuri

Knowledge distillation optimises a smaller student model to behave similarly to a larger teacher model, retaining some of the performance benefits. While this method can improve results on in-distribution examples, it does not necessarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Joe Stacey , Marek Rei

Knowledge distillation is typically conducted by training a small model (the student) to mimic a large and cumbersome model (the teacher). The idea is to compress the knowledge from the teacher by using its output probabilities as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Gustavo Aguilar , Yuan Ling , Yu Zhang , Benjamin Yao , Xing Fan , Chenlei Guo

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, making their adversarial robustness a crucial concern. While adversarial knowledge distillation has shown promise in transferring robustness from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuqi Li , Junhao Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Shiping Wen , Piotr Koniusz , Tingwen Huang , Yingli Tian , Yew-Soon Ong

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

Knowledge distillation has proven to be an effective technique in improving the performance a student model using predictions from a teacher model. However, recent work has shown that gains in average efficiency are not uniform across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Serena Wang , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Yichen Zhou , Sara Hooker , Michal Lukasik , Aditya Krishna Menon

Adversarial training significantly enhances adversarial robustness, yet superior performance is predominantly achieved on balanced datasets. Addressing adversarial robustness in the context of unbalanced or long-tailed distributions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Seungju Cho , Hongsin Lee , Changick Kim

Knowledge distillation between machine learning models has opened many new avenues for parameter count reduction, performance improvements, or amortizing training time when changing architectures between the teacher and student network. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Jonathan Raiman

While multi-exit neural networks are regarded as a promising solution for making efficient inference via early exits, combating adversarial attacks remains a challenging problem. In multi-exit networks, due to the high dependency among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Seokil Ham , Jungwuk Park , Dong-Jun Han , Jaekyun Moon

Dataset distillation (DD) allows datasets to be distilled to fractions of their original size while preserving the rich distributional information, so that models trained on the distilled datasets can achieve a comparable accuracy while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Eric Xue , Yijiang Li , Haoyang Liu , Peiran Wang , Yifan Shen , Haohan Wang