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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have the potential to power many biomedical workflows, but training them on truly representative, IID datasets is often infeasible. Most models instead rely on biased or incomplete data, making them prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yasith Jayawardana , Dineth Jayakody , Sampath Jayarathna , Dushan N. Wadduwage

Knowledge Distillation (KD) for object detection aims to train a compact detector by transferring knowledge from a teacher model. Since the teacher model perceives data in a way different from humans, existing KD methods only distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jiawei Liang , Siyuan Liang , Aishan Liu , Ke Ma , Jingzhi Li , Xiaochun Cao

Recently Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) has garnered attention and can transfer knowledge from a teacher neural network to a student neural network without requiring any access to training data. Although diffusion models are adept…

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Graph Neural Network pretraining is pivotal for leveraging unlabeled graph data. However, generalizing across heterogeneous domains remains a major challenge due to severe distribution shifts. Existing methods primarily focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yang Yan , Qiuyan Wang , Tianjin Huang , Qiudong Yu , Kexin Zhang

Knowledge distillation aims to enhance the performance of a lightweight student model by exploiting the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher model. However, in the traditional knowledge distillation, teacher predictions are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shiya Luo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Online Knowledge Distillation (KD) is recently highlighted to train large models in Federated Learning (FL) environments. Many existing studies adopt the logit ensemble method to perform KD on the server side. However, they often assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jihyun Lim , Junhyuk Jo , Tuo Zhang , Sunwoo Lee

Decentralized learning enables collaborative training of models across naturally distributed data without centralized coordination or maintenance of a global model. Instead, devices are organized in arbitrary communication topologies, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mansi Sakarvadia , Nathaniel Hudson , Tian Li , Ian Foster , Kyle Chard

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a high-performance teacher to a lightweight student, reducing computational and storage costs while maintaining competitive accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fengming Yu , Haiwei Pan , Kejia Zhang , Jian Guan , Haiying Jiang

Federated learning enables edge devices to train a global model collaboratively without exposing their data. Despite achieving outstanding advantages in computing efficiency and privacy protection, federated learning faces a significant…

Federated learning (FL) has been facilitating privacy-preserving deep learning in many walks of life such as medical image classification, network intrusion detection, and so forth. Whereas it necessitates a central parameter server for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuwei Sun , Hideya Ochiai

Knowledge distillation (KD) has demonstrated its effectiveness to boost the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), where its goal is to distill knowledge from a deeper teacher GNN into a shallower student GNN. However, it is actually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kaituo Feng , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a new method for transferring knowledge of a structure under training to another one. The typical application of KD is in the form of learning a small model (named as a student) by soft labels produced by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Data-free knowledge distillation aims to learn a compact student network from a pre-trained large teacher network without using the original training data of the teacher network. Existing collection-based and generation-based methods train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Chen Gong

Knowledge distillation is a standard teacher-student learning framework to train a light-weight student network under the guidance of a well-trained large teacher network. As an effective teaching strategy, interactive teaching has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Shipeng Fu , Zhen Li , Jun Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Zitao Liu , Xiaomin Yang

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

Recently, data heterogeneity among the training datasets on the local clients (a.k.a., Non-IID data) has attracted intense interest in Federated Learning (FL), and many personalized federated learning methods have been proposed to handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Xueyang Tang , Song Guo , Jie Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of unifying knowledge from a set of classifiers with different architectures and target classes into a single classifier, given only a generic set of unlabelled data. We call this problem Unifying…

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Federated learning has become a promising solution for collaboration among medical institutions. However, data owned by each institution would be highly heterogeneous and the distribution is always non-independent and identical distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guochen Yan , Luyuan Xie , Xinyi Gao , Wentao Zhang , Qingni Shen , Yuejian Fang , Zhonghai Wu

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

Recent advances in knowledge distillation have emphasized the importance of decoupling different knowledge components. While existing methods utilize momentum mechanisms to separate task-oriented and distillation gradients, they overlook…

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