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Recent studies attempted to utilize multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to solve semi-supervised node classification on graphs, by training a student MLP by knowledge distillation (KD) from a teacher graph neural network (GNN). While previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yong-Min Shin , Won-Yong Shin

Recently, the teacher-student knowledge distillation framework has demonstrated its potential in training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, due to the difficulty of training over-parameterized GNN models, one may not easily obtain a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Yuzhao Chen , Yatao Bian , Xi Xiao , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Junzhou Huang

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

How can we learn effective node representations on textual graphs? Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that use Language Models (LMs) to encode textual information of graphs achieve state-of-the-art performance in many node classification tasks.…

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown to be effective to boost the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), where the typical objective is to distill knowledge from a deeper teacher GNN into a shallower student GNN. However, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Kaituo Feng , Yikun Miao , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

In terms of accuracy, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the best architectural choice for the node classification task. Their drawback in real-world deployment is the latency that emerges from the neighbourhood processing operation. One…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Pavel Rumiantsev , Mark Coates

Knowledge distillation, a technique recently gaining popularity for enhancing model generalization in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), operates under the assumption that both teacher and student models are trained on identical data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Can Wang , Zhe Wang , Defang Chen , Sheng Zhou , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have improved NLP tasks significantly, but training and maintaining such networks could be costly. Model compression techniques, such as, knowledge distillation (KD), have been proposed to address the issue;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manas Mohanty , Tanya Roosta , Peyman Passban

Link prediction is a crucial graph-learning task with applications including citation prediction and product recommendation. Distilling Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) teachers into Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) students has emerged as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zongyue Qin , Shichang Zhang , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Yizhou Sun

Recent years have witnessed great success in handling graph-related tasks with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Despite their great academic success, Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs) remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lirong Wu , Jun Xia , Haitao Lin , Zhangyang Gao , Zicheng Liu , Guojiang Zhao , Stan Z. Li

Knowledge distillation (KD) techniques have emerged as a powerful tool for transferring expertise from complex teacher models to lightweight student models, particularly beneficial for deploying high-performance models in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Paul Agbaje , Arkajyoti Mitra , Afia Anjum , Pranali Khose , Ebelechukwu Nwafor , Habeeb Olufowobi

Transferring knowledge from a teacher neural network pretrained on the same or a similar task to a student neural network can significantly improve the performance of the student neural network. Existing knowledge transfer approaches match…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Sungsoo Ahn , Shell Xu Hu , Andreas Damianou , Neil D. Lawrence , Zhenwen Dai

GNN-to-MLP (G2M) methods have emerged as a promising approach to accelerate Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by distilling their knowledge into simpler Multi-Layer Perceptrons (MLPs). These methods bridge the gap between the expressive power of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Weigang Lu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Yaming Yang , Yujie Sun , Zheng Liang , Yibing Zhan , Dapeng Tao

Existing knowledge distillation methods focus on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), where the input samples like images lie in a grid domain, and have largely overlooked graph convolutional networks (GCN) that handle non-grid data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Yiding Yang , Jiayan Qiu , Mingli Song , Dacheng Tao , Xinchao Wang

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are being increasingly used in many high-stakes tasks, and as a result, there is growing attention on their fairness recently. GNNs have been shown to be unfair as they tend to make discriminatory decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuchang Zhu , Jintang Li , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng

Recent studies attempted to utilize multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to solve semisupervised node classification on graphs, by training a student MLP by knowledge distillation from a teacher graph neural network (GNN). While previous studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yong-Min Shin , Won-Yong Shin

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at transferring knowledge from a larger well-optimized teacher network to a smaller learnable student network.Existing KD methods have mainly considered two types of knowledge, namely the individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sheng Zhou , Yucheng Wang , Defang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Xin Wang , Can Wang , Jiajun Bu

Semi-supervised learning on graphs is an important problem in the machine learning area. In recent years, state-of-the-art classification methods based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown their superiority over traditional ones such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Cheng Yang , Jiawei Liu , Chuan Shi