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The diversity of recommendation is equally crucial as accuracy in improving user experience. Existing studies, e.g., Determinantal Point Process (DPP) and Maximal Marginal Relevance (MMR), employ a greedy paradigm to iteratively select…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Fan Li , Xu Si , Shisong Tang , Dingmin Wang , Kunyan Han , Bing Han , Guorui Zhou , Yang Song , Hechang Chen

On-policy distillation is an efficient alternative to reinforcement learning, offering dense token-level training signals. However, its reliance on a stronger external teacher has driven recent work on on-policy self-distillation, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Xin Yu , Liuchen Liao , Yiwen Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Lingzhou Xue , Qinzhen Guo

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

Learning generative models directly from corrupted observations is a long standing challenge across natural and scientific domains. We introduce Restoration Score Distillation (RSD), a unified framework for learning high fidelity, one step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yasi Zhang , Tianyu Chen , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Mingyuan Zhou , Oscar Leong

Semi-supervised regression (SSR), which aims to predict continuous scores for samples while reducing the reliance on large-scale labeled data, has recently attracted considerable attention across various applications, including computer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ye Su , Hezhe Qiao , Wei Huang , Lin Chen

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianyu Chen , Yasi Zhang , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong , Mingyuan Zhou

Learning group representation is a commonly concerned issue in tasks where the basic unit is a group, set, or sequence. Previously, the research community tries to tackle it by aggregating the elements in a group based on an indicator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Manyuan Zhang , Guanglu Song , Hang Zhou , Yu Liu

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

A typical assumption in state-of-the-art self-localization models is that an annotated training dataset is available for the target workspace. However, this is not necessarily true when a robot travels around the general open world. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kenta Tsukahara , Kanji Tanaka

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a fundamental technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) into compact, efficient student models. However, existing white-box KD methods mainly focus on balancing ground truth and student-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lingyuan Liu , Mengxiang Zhang

It has been recently demonstrated that multi-generational self-distillation can improve generalization. Despite this intriguing observation, reasons for the enhancement remain poorly understood. In this paper, we first demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Zhilu Zhang , Mert R. Sabuncu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been a popular and effective method for model compression. One important assumption of KD is that the teacher's original dataset will also be available when training the student. However, in situations such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Logan Frank , Jim Davis

Recent research on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has provided a significant performance boost on efficient super-resolution (SR) tasks by trading off the performance and applicability. However, most existing methods focus on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-25 Yan Wang , Tongtong Su , Yusen Li , Jiuwen Cao , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu

Most dataset distillation methods struggle to accommodate large-scale datasets due to their substantial computational and memory requirements. Recent research has begun to explore scalable disentanglement methods. However, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zhiheng Ma , Anjia Cao , Funing Yang , Yihong Gong , Xing Wei

Policy distillation, which transfers a teacher policy to a student policy has achieved great success in challenging tasks of deep reinforcement learning. This teacher-student framework requires a well-trained teacher model which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Kwei-Herng Lai , Daochen Zha , Yuening Li , Xia Hu

Knowledge distillation typically transfers knowledge from a teacher model to a student model by minimizing differences between their output distributions. However, existing distillation approaches largely focus on mimicking absolute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Chao Li , Changhua Zhou , Jia Chen

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

This paper explores targeted distillation methods for sentiment analysis, aiming to build compact and practical models that preserve strong and generalizable sentiment analysis capabilities. To this end, we conceptually decouple the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yice Zhang , Guangyu Xie , Jingjie Lin , Jianzhu Bao , Qianlong Wang , Xi Zeng , Ruifeng Xu

The problem of ranking is a multi-billion dollar problem. In this paper we present an overview of several production quality ranking systems. We show that due to conflicting goals of employing the most effective machine learning models and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Murium Iqbal , Nishan Subedi , Kamelia Aryafar

Pre-trained language models have become a crucial part of ranking systems and achieved very impressive effects recently. To maintain high performance while keeping efficient computations, knowledge distillation is widely used. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Lianshang Cai , Linhao Zhang , Dehong Ma , Jun Fan , Daiting Shi , Yi Wu , Zhicong Cheng , Simiu Gu , Dawei Yin
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