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Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted approach for compressing large neural networks by transferring knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. In the context of large language models, token level KD,…

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This paper takes an important step in bridging the performance gap between DETR and R-CNN for graphical object detection. Existing graphical object detection approaches have enjoyed recent enhancements in CNN-based object detection methods,…

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The recently proposed end-to-end transformer detectors, such as DETR and Deformable DETR, have a cascade structure of stacking 6 decoder layers to update object queries iteratively, without which their performance degrades seriously. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Zhuyu Yao , Jiangbo Ai , Boxun Li , Chi Zhang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain

Detection Transformer (DETR) directly transforms queries to unique objects by using one-to-one bipartite matching during training and enables end-to-end object detection. Recently, these models have surpassed traditional detectors on COCO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang , Jang Hyun Cho , Xingyi Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl

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…

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Despite significant advances in deep learning, current Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems struggle with the inherent complexity of historical documents, including diverse writing styles, degraded text quality, and computational…

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Although the vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) equipped cross-modal image-text retrieval (ITR) has achieved remarkable progress in the past two years, it suffers from a major drawback: the ever-increasing size of VLP models restricts…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jun Rao , Liang Ding , Shuhan Qi , Meng Fang , Yang Liu , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Knowledge distillation is considered as a training and compression strategy in which two neural networks, namely a teacher and a student, are coupled together during training. The teacher network is supposed to be a trustworthy predictor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Peyman Passban , Yimeng Wu , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Qun Liu

High storage and computational costs obstruct deep neural networks to be deployed on resource-constrained devices. Knowledge distillation aims to train a compact student network by transferring knowledge from a larger pre-trained teacher…

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Efficient object detection methods have recently received great attention in remote sensing. Although deep convolutional networks often have excellent detection accuracy, their deployment on resource-limited edge devices is difficult.…

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The groundbreaking performance of transformers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has led to their replacement of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), owing to the efficiency and accuracy achieved through the…

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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…

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Efficient models for remote sensing object counting are urgently required for applications in scenarios with limited computing resources, such as drones or embedded systems. A straightforward yet powerful technique to achieve this is…

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In recent years, there has been a great deal of research in developing end-to-end speech recognition models, which enable simplifying the traditional pipeline and achieving promising results. Despite their remarkable performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Ji Won Yoon , Hyeonseung Lee , Hyung Yong Kim , Won Ik Cho , Nam Soo Kim

Knowledge distillation (KD) is generally considered as a technique for performing model compression and learned-label smoothing. However, in this paper, we study and investigate the KD approach from a new perspective: we study its efficacy…

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Although deep neural networks and in particular Convolutional Neural Networks have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in image classification with relatively high efficiency, they still exhibit high computational costs, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Martial Guidez , Stefan Duffner , Yannick Alpou , Oscar Röth , Christophe Garcia

Existing unsupervised keypoint detection methods apply artificial deformations to images such as masking a significant portion of images and using reconstruction of original image as a learning objective to detect keypoints. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Aman Anand , Elyas Rashno , Amir Eskandari , Farhana Zulkernine

We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are…

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