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Quantum neural networks (QNNs), harnessing superposition and entanglement, have shown potential to surpass classical methods in complex learning tasks but remain limited by hardware constraints and noisy conditions. In this work, we present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Mohammad Junayed Hasan , M. R. C. Mahdy

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are extensively beneficial for medical image processing. Medical images are plentiful, but there is a lack of annotated data. Transfer learning is used to solve the problem of lack of labeled data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi , Shahram Shirani

Neural networks (NNs) inspired by the forward-backward algorithm (FBA) are used as equalizers for bandlimited channels with a memoryless nonlinearity. The NN-equalizers are combined with successive interference cancellation (SIC) to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Daniel Plabst , Tobias Prinz , Francesca Diedolo , Thomas Wiegart , Georg Böcherer , Norbert Hanik , Gerhard Kramer

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), inspired by the human brain, offer significant computational efficiency through discrete spike-based information transfer. Despite their potential to reduce inference energy consumption, a performance gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Kairong Yu , Chengting Yu , Tianqing Zhang , Xiaochen Zhao , Shu Yang , Hongwei Wang , Qiang Zhang , Qi Xu

The expansion of neural network sizes and the enhanced resolution of modern image sensors result in heightened memory and power demands to process modern computer vision models. In order to deploy these models in extremely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Fang Chen , Gourav Datta , Mujahid Al Rafi , Hyeran Jeon , Meng Tang

Network quantization is an essential procedure in deep learning for development of efficient fixed-point inference models on mobile or edge platforms. However, as datasets grow larger and privacy regulations become stricter, data sharing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yoojin Choi , Jihwan Choi , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a very popular method for model size reduction. Recently, the technique is exploited for quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) training as a way to restore the performance sacrificed by word-length reduction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

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

Current state-of-the-art object detectors are at the expense of high computational costs and are hard to deploy to low-end devices. Knowledge distillation, which aims at training a smaller student network by transferring knowledge from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ruoyu Sun , Fuhui Tang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Knowledge distillation, i.e., one classifier being trained on the outputs of another classifier, is an empirically very successful technique for knowledge transfer between classifiers. It has even been observed that classifiers learn much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Mary Phuong , Christoph H. Lampert

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have enabled ubiquitous image processing applications. As such, CNNs require fast runtime (forward propagation) to process high-resolution visual streams in real time. This is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jinlin Xiang , Shane Colburn , Arka Majumdar , Eli Shlizerman

The technique of distillation helps transform cumbersome neural network into compact network so that the model can be deployed on alternative hardware devices. The main advantages of distillation based approaches include simple training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zi-Rui Wang , Jun Du

This paper addresses the problem of model compression via knowledge distillation. To this end, we propose a new knowledge distillation method based on transferring feature statistics, specifically the channel-wise mean and variance, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Jing Yang , Brais Martinez , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Compressing deep neural network (DNN) models becomes a very important and necessary technique for real-world applications, such as deploying those models on mobile devices. Knowledge distillation is one of the most popular methods for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Makoto Takamoto , Yusuke Morishita , Hitoshi Imaoka

Quantization and Knowledge distillation (KD) methods are widely used to reduce memory and power consumption of deep neural networks (DNNs), especially for resource-constrained edge devices. Although their combination is quite promising to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jangho Kim , Yash Bhalgat , Jinwon Lee , Chirag Patel , Nojun Kwak

Improving the performance of on-device audio classification models remains a challenge given the computational limits of the mobile environment. Many studies leverage knowledge distillation to boost predictive performance by transferring…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kwanghee Choi , Martin Kersner , Jacob Morton , Buru Chang

Knowledge distillation is a form of model compression that allows artificial neural networks of different sizes to learn from one another. Its main application is the compactification of large deep neural networks to free up computational…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-05-08 Aritra Bal , Tristan Brandes , Fabio Iemmi , Markus Klute , Benedikt Maier , Vinicius Mikuni , Thea Aarrestad

Knowledge distillation becomes a de facto standard to improve the performance of small neural networks. Most of the previous works propose to regress the representational features from the teacher to the student in a one-to-one spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Gang Wang

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by mimicking. However, distillation by directly aligning the feature maps between teacher and student may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziwei Liu , Yongtao Wang , Xiaojie Chu

Learned image compression sits at the intersection of machine learning and image processing. With advances in deep learning, neural network-based compression methods have emerged. In this process, an encoder maps the image to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Fabien Allemand , Attilio Fiandrotti , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Alaa Eddine Mazouz