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Knowledge distillation~(KD) has been proved effective for compressing large-scale pre-trained language models. However, existing methods conduct KD statically, e.g., the student model aligns its output distribution to that of a selected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Lei Li , Yankai Lin , Shuhuai Ren , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Knowledge distillation~(KD) is an effective learning paradigm for improving the performance of lightweight student networks by utilizing additional supervision knowledge distilled from teacher networks. Most pioneering studies either learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Benefiting from well-trained deep neural networks (DNNs), model compression have captured special attention for computing resource limited equipment, especially edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the widely used compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jinyin Chen , Xiaoming Zhao , Haibin Zheng , Xiao Li , Sheng Xiang , Haifeng Guo

Event cameras are gaining popularity due to their unique properties, such as their low latency and high dynamic range. One task where these benefits can be crucial is real-time object detection. However, RGB detectors still outperform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Lei Li , Alexander Liniger , Mario Millhaeusler , Vagia Tsiminaki , Yuanyou Li , Dengxin Dai

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widespread technique for compressing the knowledge of large models into more compact and efficient models. KD has proved to be highly effective in building well-performing low-complexity Acoustic Scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses neural networks by learning a small network (student) via transferring knowledge from a pre-trained large network (teacher). Many endeavours have been devoted to the image domain, while few works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ping Li , Chenhao Ping , Wenxiao Wang , Mingli Song

Knowledge distillation is the process of transferring knowledge from a more powerful large model (teacher) to a simpler counterpart (student). Numerous current approaches involve the student imitating the knowledge of the teacher directly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhaoge Liu , Xiaohao Xu , Yunkang Cao , Weiming Shen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher network to strengthen a smaller student. Existing methods focus on excavating the knowledge hints and transferring the whole knowledge to the student. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chenxin Li , Mingbao Lin , Zhiyuan Ding , Nie Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Liujuan Cao

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely used technique to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a smaller student model. Traditional KD uses a fixed balancing factor alpha as a hyperparameter to combine the hard-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhengda Li

Recent advances in 3D object detection (3DOD) have obtained remarkably strong results for LiDAR-based models. In contrast, surround-view 3DOD models based on multiple camera images underperform due to the necessary view transformation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Marvin Klingner , Shubhankar Borse , Varun Ravi Kumar , Behnaz Rezaei , Venkatraman Narayanan , Senthil Yogamani , Fatih Porikli

Knowledge Distillation (KD) uses the teacher's prediction logits as soft labels to guide the student, while self-KD does not need a real teacher to require the soft labels. This work unifies the formulations of the two tasks by decomposing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhendong Yang , Ailing Zeng , Zhe Li , Tianke Zhang , Chun Yuan , Yu Li

Knowledge distillation is a powerful method for model compression, enabling the efficient deployment of complex deep learning models (teachers), including large language models. However, its underlying statistical mechanisms remain unclear,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-28 Luyang Fang , Yongkai Chen , Jiazhang Cai , Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong

Knowledge distillation (KD) techniques have emerged as a powerful tool for transferring expertise from complex teacher models to lightweight student models, particularly beneficial for deploying high-performance models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Paul Agbaje , Arkajyoti Mitra , Afia Anjum , Pranali Khose , Ebelechukwu Nwafor , Habeeb Olufowobi

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common knowledge transfer algorithm used for model compression across a variety of deep learning based natural language processing (NLP) solutions. In its regular manifestations, KD requires access to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ahmad Rashid , Vasileios Lioutas , Abbas Ghaddar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

RGB-D salient object detection (SOD) demonstrates its superiority on detecting in complex environments due to the additional depth information introduced in the data. Inevitably, an independent stream is introduced to extract features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Guangyu Ren , Yinxiao Yu , Hengyan Liu , Tania Stathaki

The knowledge of a well-trained deep neural network (a.k.a. the "teacher") is valuable for learning similar tasks. Knowledge distillation extracts knowledge from the teacher and integrates it with the target model (a.k.a. the "student"),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Han-Jia Ye , Su Lu , De-Chuan Zhan

The model reduction problem that eases the computation costs and latency of complex deep learning architectures has received an increasing number of investigations owing to its importance in model deployment. One promising method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Wei-Chun Chen , Chia-Che Chang , Chien-Yu Lu , Che-Rung Lee

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective technique to transfer knowledge from one neural network (teacher) to another (student), thus improving the performance of the student. To make the student better mimic the behavior of the teacher,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xiang Deng , Zhongfei , Zhang

Logit-based knowledge distillation (KD) for classification is cost-efficient compared to feature-based KD but often subject to inferior performance. Recently, it was shown that the performance of logit-based KD can be improved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hyungkeun Park , Jong-Seok Lee

Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as one of the most promising compression technologies to run advanced deep neural networks on resource-limited devices. In order to train a small network (student) under the guidance of a large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yi Guo , Yiqian He , Xiaoyang Li , Haotong Qin , Van Tung Pham , Yang Zhang , Shouda Liu