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Reconstructing high-fidelity flow fields from low-fidelity observations is a central problem in scientific machine learning, yet recent diffusion and flow-matching models typically rely on iterative sampling, making them costly for…

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Knowledge distillation has attracted a great deal of interest recently to compress pre-trained language models. However, existing knowledge distillation methods suffer from two limitations. First, the student model simply imitates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Siyue Wu , Hongzhan Chen , Xiaojun Quan , Qifan Wang , Rui Wang

Ensembles of models have been empirically shown to improve predictive performance and to yield robust measures of uncertainty. However, they are expensive in computation and memory. Therefore, recent research has focused on distilling…

Despite the recent success of deep neural networks, there remains a need for effective methods to enhance domain generalization using vision transformers. In this paper, we propose a novel domain generalization technique called Robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Ankur Singh , Senthilnath Jayavelu

Knowledge distillation is often used to transfer knowledge from a strong teacher model to a relatively weak student model. Traditional methods include response-based methods and feature-based methods. Response-based methods are widely used…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hao Sun , Xiao Liu , Yeyun Gong , Anlei Dong , Jingwen Lu , Yan Zhang , Linjun Yang , Rangan Majumder , Nan Duan

Knowledge distillation has been used to transfer knowledge learned by a sophisticated model (teacher) to a simpler model (student). This technique is widely used to compress model complexity. However, in most applications the compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hadi Pouransari , Mojan Javaheripi , Vinay Sharma , Oncel Tuzel

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique to transfer knowledge from large teacher models to a small student model. Typically, the student learns to imitate the teacher by minimizing the KL divergence of its output distribution with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rongzhi Zhang , Jiaming Shen , Tianqi Liu , Jialu Liu , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork , Chao Zhang

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 (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student by aligning their predictive distributions. However, conventional KD formulations - typically based on Kullback-Leibler divergence - assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ondrej Tybl , Lukas Neumann

Despite the popularity and efficacy of knowledge distillation, there is limited understanding of why it helps. In order to study the generalization behavior of a distilled student, we propose a new theoretical framework that leverages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Ankit Singh Rawat , Aditya Krishna Menon , Seungyeon Kim , Sanjiv Kumar

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to compress existing deep learning models while preserving the performance on a wide range of applications. In the specific context of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), distillation from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yan Gao , Titouan Parcollet , Nicholas Lane

Knowledge distillation is a common technique for improving the performance of a shallow student network by transferring information from a teacher network, which in general, is comparatively large and deep. These teacher networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ishan Mishra , Sethu Vamsi Krishna , Deepak Mishra

Knowledge distillation learns a lightweight student model that mimics a cumbersome teacher. Existing methods regard the knowledge as the feature of each instance or their relations, which is the instance-level knowledge only from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Sanli Tang , Zhongyu Zhang , Zhanzhan Cheng , Jing Lu , Yunlu Xu , Yi Niu , Fan He

Knowledge distillation involves transferring the predictive capabilities of large, high-performing AI models (teachers) to smaller models (students) that can operate in environments with limited computing power. In this paper, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

In real-world systems, models are frequently updated as more data becomes available, and in addition to achieving high accuracy, the goal is to also maintain a low difference in predictions compared to the base model (i.e. predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Heinrich Jiang , Harikrishna Narasimhan , Dara Bahri , Andrew Cotter , Afshin Rostamizadeh

As deep learning models grow in complexity and the volume of training data increases, reducing storage and computational costs becomes increasingly important. Dataset distillation addresses this challenge by synthesizing a compact set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhe Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Katharina Breininger , Peter Schüffler , Bernhard Kainz

Feature distillation is an effective way to improve the performance for a smaller student model, which has fewer parameters and lower computation cost compared to the larger teacher model. Unfortunately, there is a common obstacle - the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Kaiyu Yue , Jiangfan Deng , Feng Zhou

Diffusion distillation is a widely used technique to reduce the sampling cost of diffusion models, yet it often requires extensive training, and the student performance tends to be degraded. Recent studies show that incorporating a GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Bowen Zheng , Tianming Yang

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

The existing solutions for object detection distillation rely on the availability of both a teacher model and ground-truth labels. We propose a new perspective to relax this constraint. In our framework, a student is first trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Amin Banitalebi-Dehkordi