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The burgeoning complexity of contemporary deep learning models, while achieving unparalleled accuracy, has inadvertently introduced deployment challenges in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge distillation, a technique aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is increasingly adopted to transfer capabilities from large language models to smaller ones, offering significant improvements in efficiency and utility while often surpassing standard fine-tuning. Beyond…

Neural transducer (RNNT)-based target-speaker speech recognition (TS-RNNT) directly transcribes a target speaker's voice from a multi-talker mixture. It is a promising approach for streaming applications because it does not incur the extra…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Takafumi Moriya , Hiroshi Sato , Tsubasa Ochiai , Marc Delcroix , Takanori Ashihara , Kohei Matsuura , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura , Atsunori Ogawa , Taichi Asami

We explore the use of knowledge distillation (KD) for learning compact and accurate models that enable classification of animal behavior from accelerometry data on wearable devices. To this end, we take a deep and complex convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Reza Arablouei , Liang Wang , Caitlin Phillips , Lachlan Currie , Jordan Yates , Greg Bishop-Hurley

Knowledge distillation (KD) exploits a large well-trained model (i.e., teacher) to train a small student model on the same dataset for the same task. Treating teacher features as knowledge, prevailing methods of knowledge distillation train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yuzhu Wang , Lechao Cheng , Manni Duan , Yongheng Wang , Zunlei Feng , Shu Kong

In real applications, different computation-resource devices need different-depth networks (e.g., ResNet-18/34/50) with high-accuracy. Usually, existing methods either design multiple networks and train them independently, or construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qi Zhao , Shuchang Lyu , Zhiwei Zhang , Ting-Bing Xu , Guangliang Cheng

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a core component in the training and deployment of modern generative models, particularly large language models (LLMs). While its empirical benefits are well documented -- enabling smaller student models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Sungmin Cha , Kyunghyun Cho

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

In the era of large scale pretrained models, Knowledge Distillation (KD) serves an important role in transferring the wisdom of computationally heavy teacher models to lightweight, efficient student models while preserving performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Alex Wilf , Alex Tianyi Xu , Paul Pu Liang , Alexander Obolenskiy , Daniel Fried , Louis-Philippe Morency

In recent years the empirical success of transfer learning with neural networks has stimulated an increasing interest in obtaining a theoretical understanding of its core properties. Knowledge distillation where a smaller neural network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Luca Saglietti , Lenka Zdeborová

Knowledge distillation is normally used to compress a big network, or teacher, onto a smaller one, the student, by training it to match its outputs. Recently, some works have shown that robustness against adversarial attacks can also be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Javier Maroto , Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Pascal Frossard

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a well-known method for compressing neural models. However, works focusing on distilling knowledge from large multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models into smaller ones are practically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Varun Gumma , Raj Dabre , Pratyush Kumar

Knowledge distillation is the technique of compressing a larger neural network, known as the teacher, into a smaller neural network, known as the student, while still trying to maintain the performance of the larger neural network as much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Tianxun Zhou , Keng-Hwee Chiam

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an established paradigm for transferring privileged knowledge from a cumbersome model to a lightweight and efficient one. In recent years, logit-based KD methods are quickly catching up in performance with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Weijia Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Chao Ma

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) become popular due to excellent energy efficiency, yet facing challenges for effective model training. Recent works improve this by introducing knowledge distillation (KD) techniques, with the pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Xu Liu , Na Xia , Jinxing Zhou , Jingyuan Xu , Dan Guo

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely employed to transfer knowledge from a large language model (LLM) to a specialized model in low-data regimes through pseudo label learning. However, pseudo labels generated by teacher models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Jiachen Zhao

Large pretrained language models have achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of downstream tasks. Knowledge Distillation (KD) into a smaller student model addresses their inefficiency, allowing for deployment in resource-constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Aashka Trivedi , Takuma Udagawa , Michele Merler , Rameswar Panda , Yousef El-Kurdi , Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee

Arabic is known to present unique challenges for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). On one hand, its rich linguistic diversity and wide range of dialects complicate the development of robust, inclusive models. On the other, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Abdul Waheed , Karima Kadaoui , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Continual learning refers to a dynamical framework in which a model receives a stream of non-stationary data over time and must adapt to new data while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Unluckily, neural networks fail to meet these…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Umberto Cappellazzo , Daniele Falavigna , Alessio Brutti