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Knowledge distillation with unlabeled examples is a powerful training paradigm for generating compact and lightweight student models in applications where the amount of labeled data is limited but one has access to a large pool of unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Vasilis Kontonis , Fotis Iliopoulos , Khoa Trinh , Cenk Baykal , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is extensively used to compress and deploy large pre-trained language models on edge devices for real-world applications. However, one neglected area of research is the impact of noisy (corrupted) labels on KD.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Shivendra Bhardwaj , Abbas Ghaddar , Ahmad Rashid , Khalil Bibi , Chengyang Li , Ali Ghodsi , Philippe Langlais , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Conventional knowledge distillation (KD) approaches are designed for the student model to predict similar output as the teacher model for each sample. Unfortunately, the relationship across samples with same class is often neglected. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jinjing Zhu , Songze Li , Lin Wang

In the knowledge distillation literature, feature-based methods have dominated due to their ability to effectively tap into extensive teacher models. In contrast, logit-based approaches, which aim to distill "dark knowledge" from teachers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Md. Ismail Hossain , M M Lutfe Elahi , Sameera Ramasinghe , Ali Cheraghian , Fuad Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Knowledge distillation (KD)transfers the dark knowledge from a complex teacher to a compact student. However, heterogeneous architecture distillation, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) to ResNet18, faces challenges due to differences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Liuchi Xu , Hao Zheng , Lu Wang , Lisheng Xu , Jun Cheng

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel knowledge distillation approach for the semantic segmentation task. Unlike previous methods that rely on power-trained teachers or other modalities to provide additional knowledge, our approach does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shoumeng Qiu , Jie Chen , Xinrun Li , Ru Wan , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

In instance-level detection tasks (e.g., object detection), reducing input resolution is an easy option to improve runtime efficiency. However, this option traditionally hurts the detection performance much. This paper focuses on boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Jiuxiang Gu , Zhe Lin , Yi Wang , Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Jiaya Jia

The advancement of knowledge distillation has played a crucial role in enabling the transfer of knowledge from larger teacher models to smaller and more efficient student models, and is particularly beneficial for online and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wanli Ma , Oktay Karakus , Paul L. Rosin

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to distill the knowledge of a cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities among categories provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Li Yuan , Francis E. H. Tay , Guilin Li , Tao Wang , Jiashi Feng

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) 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

LLMs are increasingly explored for bundle generation, thanks to their reasoning capabilities and knowledge. However, deploying large-scale LLMs introduces significant efficiency challenges, primarily high computational costs during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Kaidong Feng , Zhu Sun , Jie Yang , Hui Fang , Xinghua Qu , Wenyuan Liu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widely-used technology to inherit information from cumbersome teacher models to compact student models, consequently realizing model compression and acceleration. Compared with image classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Gang Li , Xiang Li , Yujie Wang , Shanshan Zhang , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become an important technique for model compression and knowledge transfer. In this work, we first perform a comprehensive analysis of the knowledge transferred by different KD methods. We demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fei Ding , Yin Yang , Hongxin Hu , Venkat Krovi , Feng Luo

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 (KD) represents a vital mechanism to transfer expertise from complex teacher networks to efficient student models. However, in decentralized or secure AI ecosystems, privacy regulations and proprietary interests often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tri-Nhan Vo , Dang Nguyen , Trung Le , Kien Do , Sunil Gupta

Knowledge Distillation (KD) utilizes training data as a transfer set to transfer knowledge from a complex network (Teacher) to a smaller network (Student). Several works have recently identified many scenarios where the training data may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Monish Keswani , Sharan Seshadri , Anirban Chakraborty

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a well-known technique to effectively compress a large network (teacher) to a smaller network (student) with little sacrifice in performance. However, most KD methods require a large training set and internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tri-Nhan Vo , Dang Nguyen , Kien Do , Sunil Gupta

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