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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

Knowledge distillation is one of the most popular and effective techniques for knowledge transfer, model compression and semi-supervised learning. Most existing distillation approaches require the access to original or augmented training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Liangchen Luo , Mark Sandler , Zi Lin , Andrey Zhmoginov , Andrew Howard

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a general neural network training approach that uses a teacher model to guide the student model. Existing works mainly study KD from the network output side (e.g., trying to design a better KD loss function),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Huan Wang , Suhas Lohit , Mike Jones , Yun Fu

Training models continually to detect and classify objects, from new classes and new domains, remains an open problem. In this work, we conduct a thorough analysis of why and how object detection models forget catastrophically. We focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Eli Verwimp , Kuo Yang , Sarah Parisot , Hong Lanqing , Steven McDonagh , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Matthias De Lange , Tinne Tuytelaars

In this paper, we reveal the two sides of data augmentation: enhancements in closed-set recognition correlate with a significant decrease in open-set recognition. Through empirical investigation, we find that multi-sample-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Yunbing Jia , Xiaoyu Kong , Fan Tang , Yixing Gao , Weiming Dong , Yi Yang

Knowledge distillation is an effective approach to learn compact models (students) with the supervision of large and strong models (teachers). As empirically there exists a strong correlation between the performance of teacher and student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Chaofei Wang , Qisen Yang , Rui Huang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve state-of-the-art performance on many translation benchmarks. As an active research field in NMT, knowledge distillation is widely applied to enhance the model's performance by transferring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Fusheng Wang , Jianhao Yan , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Model distillation is an effective and widely used technique to transfer knowledge from a teacher to a student network. The typical application is to transfer from a powerful large network or ensemble to a small network, that is better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Ying Zhang , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Huchuan Lu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has proven effective for compressing large teacher models into smaller student models. While it is well known that student models can achieve similar accuracies as the teachers, it has also been shown that they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Amin Parchami-Araghi , Moritz Böhle , Sukrut Rao , Bernt Schiele

Knowledge distillation aims to train a compact student network using soft supervision from a larger teacher network and hard supervision from ground truths. However, determining an optimal knowledge fusion ratio that balances these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chengming Hu , Haolun Wu , Xuan Li , Chen Ma , Xi Chen , Jun Yan , Boyu Wang , Xue Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique where a compact student network is taught to mimic the behavior of a complex and highly trained teacher network. In contrast, Mutual Learning (ML) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Usma Niyaz , Deepti R. Bathula

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 is an efficient strategy to use data generated by large "teacher" language models to train smaller capable "student" models, but selecting the optimal teacher for a specific student-task combination requires expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Abhishek Panigrahi , Bingbin Liu , Sadhika Malladi , Sham Kakade , Surbhi Goel

Generalization Performance of Deep Learning models trained using Empirical Risk Minimization can be improved significantly by using Data Augmentation strategies such as simple transformations, or using Mixed Samples. We attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Deepan Das , Haley Massa , Abhimanyu Kulkarni , Theodoros Rekatsinas

Knowledge distillation is a strategy of training a student network with guide of the soft output from a teacher network. It has been a successful method of model compression and knowledge transfer. However, currently knowledge distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Guangda Ji , Zhanxing Zhu

Convolutional neural networks have been widely deployed in various application scenarios. In order to extend the applications' boundaries to some accuracy-crucial domains, researchers have been investigating approaches to boost accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Linfeng Zhang , Jiebo Song , Anni Gao , Jingwei Chen , Chenglong Bao , Kaisheng Ma

Knowledge distillation is the procedure of transferring "knowledge" from a large model (the teacher) to a more compact one (the student), often being used in the context of model compression. When both models have the same architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde

Previous Knowledge Distillation based efficient image retrieval methods employs a lightweight network as the student model for fast inference. However, the lightweight student model lacks adequate representation capacity for effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yi Xie , Huaidong Zhang , Xuemiao Xu , Jianqing Zhu , Shengfeng He

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common method for transferring the ``knowledge'' learned by one machine learning model (the \textit{teacher}) into another model (the \textit{student}), where typically, the teacher has a greater capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jie Fu , Xue Geng , Zhijian Duan , Bohan Zhuang , Xingdi Yuan , Adam Trischler , Jie Lin , Chris Pal , Hao Dong