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Single-domain generalization is essential for object detection, particularly when training models on a single source domain and evaluating them on unseen target domains. Domain shifts, such as changes in weather, lighting, or scene…

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Deep learning has shown promise in enhancing channel state information (CSI) feedback. However, many studies indicate that better feedback performance often accompanies higher computational complexity. Pursuing better performance-complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Yiming Cui , Jiajia Guo , Zheng Cao , Huaze Tang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Xin Wang , Xiaolin Hou

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a strategy for the definition of a set of transferability gangways to improve the efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks. Feature-based Knowledge Distillation is a subfield of KD that relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Alejandro López-Cifuentes , Marcos Escudero-Viñolo , Jesús Bescós , Juan C. SanMiguel

Gait recognition is an attractive biometric modality for long-range and contact-free identification, but high-performing gait models often rely on deep and computationally expensive architectures that are difficult to deploy in practice.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yuqi Li , Qian Zhou , Huiran Duan , Jingjie Wang , Shunli Zhang , Chuanguang Yang , Guoying Zhao , Yingli Tian

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for code understanding. However, deploying these PLMs in large-scale applications faces practical challenges due to their computational intensity and inference latency.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruiqi Wang , Zezhou Yang , Cuiyun Gao , Xin Xia , Qing Liao

Compact models can be effectively trained through Knowledge Distillation (KD), a technique that transfers knowledge from larger, high-performing teacher models. Two key challenges in Knowledge Distillation (KD) are: 1) balancing learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeeshan Hayder , Ali Cheraghian , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

Beam training and prediction in real-world millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications systems are challenging due to rapidly time-varying channels and strong interference from surrounding objects. In this context, widely available sensors,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Mengyuan Ma , Isuri Welgamage , Ahmed Alkhateeb , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti , Nhan Thanh Nguyen

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model with great improvements of the performance of the student model. Therefore, the student network can replace the teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jinhong Lin , Zhaoyang Li

As a promising solution for model compression, knowledge distillation (KD) has been applied in recommender systems (RS) to reduce inference latency. Traditional solutions first train a full teacher model from the training data, and then…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Gang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Fuli Feng , Sheng Zhou , Xiangnan He

Deep neural models in recent years have been successful in almost every field, including extremely complex problem statements. However, these models are huge in size, with millions (and even billions) of parameters, thus demanding more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Lin Wang , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been actively studied for image classification tasks in deep learning, aiming to improve the performance of a student based on the knowledge from a teacher. However, applying KD in image regression with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Zuheng Xu , Z. Jane Wang , William J. Welch

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a pivotal technique for neural network compression and performance enhancement. Most KD methods aim to transfer dark knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Niu , Yingchao Wang , Guohui Cai , Hanpo Hou

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework that aims to transfer meaningful information from a large teacher to a smaller student. Generally, KD often involves how to define and transfer knowledge. Previous KD methods often focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

Several recent studies have elucidated why knowledge distillation (KD) improves model performance. However, few have researched the other advantages of KD in addition to its improving model performance. In this study, we have attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hyeongrok Han , Siwon Kim , Hyun-Soo Choi , Sungroh Yoon

In recent years, knowledge distillation has been proved to be an effective solution for model compression. This approach can make lightweight student models acquire the knowledge extracted from cumbersome teacher models. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xing Dai , Zeren Jiang , Zhao Wu , Yiping Bao , Zhicheng Wang , Si Liu , Erjin Zhou

With the improvement of AI chips (e.g., GPU, TPU, and NPU) and the fast development of the Internet of Things (IoT), some robust deep neural networks (DNNs) are usually composed of millions or even hundreds of millions of parameters. Such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jun-Teng Yang , Sheng-Che Kao , Scott C. -H. Huang

Knowledge distillation (KD) improves the performance of a low-complexity student model with the help of a more powerful teacher. The teacher in KD is a black-box model, imparting knowledge to the student only through its predictions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sayantan Chowdhury , Ben Liang , Ali Tizghadam , Ilijc Albanese

Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods are capable of transferring the knowledge encoded in a large and complex teacher into a smaller and faster student. Early methods were usually limited to transferring the knowledge only between the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nikolaos Passalis , Maria Tzelepi , Anastasios Tefas

Knowledge distillation is a widely used paradigm for inheriting information from a complicated teacher network to a compact student network and maintaining the strong performance. Different from image classification, object detectors are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jianyuan Guo , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Han Wu , Xinghao Chen , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu