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Despite the fact that deep neural networks are powerful models and achieve appealing results on many tasks, they are too large to be deployed on edge devices like smartphones or embedded sensor nodes. There have been efforts to compress…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Seyed-Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Ang Li , Nir Levine , Akihiro Matsukawa , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Knowledge distillation is used, in generative language modeling, to train a smaller student model using the help of a larger teacher model, resulting in improved capabilities for the student model. In this paper, we formulate a more general…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Guanlin Liu , Anand Ramachandran , Tanmay Gangwani , Yan Fu , Abhinav Sethy

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher to a compact yet well-performing student. Previous KD practices for pre-trained language models mainly transfer knowledge by aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lean Wang , Lei Li , Xu Sun

This paper explores the use of knowledge distillation to improve a Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) (Liu et al., 2019) for learning text representations across multiple natural language understanding tasks. Although ensemble learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Xiaodong Liu , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Jianfeng Gao

This paper aims to provide a selective survey about knowledge distillation(KD) framework for researchers and practitioners to take advantage of it for developing new optimized models in the deep neural network field. To this end, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jeong-Hoe Ku , JiHun Oh , YoungYoon Lee , Gaurav Pooniwala , SangJeong Lee

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique to derive optimal performance from a small student network (SN) by distilling knowledge of a large teacher network (TN) and transferring the distilled knowledge to the small SN. Since a role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring knowledge acquired in one model (a teacher) to another model (a student) that is typically smaller. Previous approaches can be expressed as a form of training the student to mimic output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Wonpyo Park , Dongju Kim , Yan Lu , Minsu Cho

Knowledge distillation, transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model, has emerged as a powerful technique in neural machine translation for compressing models or simplifying training targets. Knowledge distillation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jingxuan Wei , Linzhuang Sun , Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo

Deep learning based models are relatively large, and it is hard to deploy such models on resource-limited devices such as mobile phones and embedded devices. One possible solution is knowledge distillation whereby a smaller model (student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Abdolmaged Alkhulaifi , Fahad Alsahli , Irfan Ahmad

Knowledge distillation involves transferring the predictive capabilities of large, high-performing AI models (teachers) to smaller models (students) that can operate in environments with limited computing power. In this paper, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been considered as a key solution in model compression and acceleration in recent years. In KD, a small student model is generally trained from a large teacher model by minimizing the divergence between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Raed Alharbi , Minh N. Vu , My T. Thai

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

This paper presents a method to interpret the success of knowledge distillation by quantifying and analyzing task-relevant and task-irrelevant visual concepts that are encoded in intermediate layers of a deep neural network (DNN). More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Xu Cheng , Zhefan Rao , Yilan Chen , Quanshi Zhang

Often we wish to transfer representational knowledge from one neural network to another. Examples include distilling a large network into a smaller one, transferring knowledge from one sensory modality to a second, or ensembling a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Yonglong Tian , Dilip Krishnan , Phillip Isola

Knowledge distillation transfers knowledge from the teacher network to the student one, with the goal of greatly improving the performance of the student network. Previous methods mostly focus on proposing feature transformation and loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Pengguang Chen , Shu Liu , Hengshuang Zhao , Jiaya Jia

Knowledge distillation (KD), known for its ability to transfer knowledge from a cumbersome network (teacher) to a lightweight one (student) without altering the architecture, has been garnering increasing attention. Two primary categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yaomin Huang , Zaomin Yan , Chaomin Shen , Faming Fang , Guixu Zhang

Knowledge distillation is a technique used to train a small student network using the output generated by a large teacher network, and has many empirical advantages~\citep{Hinton2015DistillingTK}. While the standard one-shot approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shivam Gupta , Sushrut Karmalkar

Knowledge Distillation is becoming one of the primary trends among neural network compression algorithms to improve the generalization performance of a smaller student model with guidance from a larger teacher model. This momentous rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Sumanth Chennupati , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Zhongwei Cheng , Lin Chen

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) 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