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Knowledge distillation constitutes a potent methodology for condensing substantial neural networks into more compact and efficient counterparts. Within this context, softmax regression representation learning serves as a widely embraced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Huayu Li , Xiwen Chen , Gregory Ditzler , Janet Roveda , Ao Li

Offline distillation is a two-stage pipeline that requires expensive resources to train a teacher network and then distill the knowledge to a student for deployment. Online knowledge distillation, on the other hand, is a one-stage strategy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Baitan Shao , Ying Chen

Deploying deep learning models in clinical practice often requires leveraging multiple data modalities, such as images, text, and structured data, to achieve robust and trustworthy decisions. However, not all modalities are always available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Simon Baur , Alexandra Benova , Emilio Dolgener Cantú , Jackie Ma

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 emerged as an effective model compression technique in deep learning, enabling the transfer of knowledge from a large teacher model to a compact student model. While KD has demonstrated significant success,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Suyoung Kim , Seonguk Park , Junhoo Lee , Nojun Kwak

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown very promising capabilities in transferring learning representations from large models (teachers) to small models (students). However, as the capacity gap between students and teachers becomes larger,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zengyu Qiu , Xinzhu Ma , Kunlin Yang , Chunya Liu , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi , Wanli Ouyang

Knowledge distillation is an effective technique for pre-trained language model compression. However, existing methods only focus on the knowledge distribution among layers, which may cause the loss of fine-grained information in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zihe Liu , Yulong Mao , Jinan Xu , Xinrui Peng , Kaiyu Huang

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across diverse domains, yet their enormous computational and memory requirements hinder deployment in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge distillation offers a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Zhang , Zhibin Zhang , Guangxin Wu , Wanyi Ning , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

The knowledge of a well-trained deep neural network (a.k.a. the "teacher") is valuable for learning similar tasks. Knowledge distillation extracts knowledge from the teacher and integrates it with the target model (a.k.a. the "student"),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Han-Jia Ye , Su Lu , De-Chuan Zhan

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has made remarkable progress in visual representation learning. Some studies combine SSL with knowledge distillation (SSL-KD) to boost the representation learning performance of small models. In this study, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kaiyou Song , Jin Xie , Shan Zhang , Zimeng Luo

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become a well established paradigm for compressing deep neural networks. The typical way of conducting knowledge distillation is to train the student network under the supervision of the teacher network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jie Song , Ying Chen , Jingwen Ye , Mingli Song

Does Knowledge Distillation (KD) really work? Conventional wisdom viewed it as a knowledge transfer procedure where a perfect mimicry of the student to its teacher is desired. However, paradoxical studies indicate that closely replicating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Chenqi Guo , Shiwei Zhong , Xiaofeng Liu , Qianli Feng , Yinglong Ma

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods are often either too computationally expensive or not accurate enough due to the trade-off between model complexity and inference performance. In this paper, we propose a lightweight network that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Hualie Jiang , Xiyue Guo , Yuan Gao , Xiangyong Lu , Tin Lun Lam

Knowledge distillation is a widely applicable technique for training a student neural network under the guidance of a trained teacher network. For example, in neural network compression, a high-capacity teacher is distilled to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Frederick Tung , Greg Mori

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) is a promising yet challenging model compression technique that transfers rich learning representations from a well-performing but cumbersome teacher model to a compact student model. Previous methods for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Simiao Li , Yun Zhang , Wei Li , Hanting Chen , Wenjia Wang , Bingyi Jing , Shaohui Lin , Jie Hu

Significant memory and computational requirements of large deep neural networks restrict their application on edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a prominent model compression technique for deep neural networks in which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pranav Sharma , Ali Ghodsi

The outpouring of various pre-trained models empowers knowledge distillation by providing abundant teacher resources, but there lacks a developed mechanism to utilize these teachers adequately. With a massive model repository composed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Su Lu , Han-Jia Ye , De-Chuan Zhan

In knowledge distillation, the knowledge from the teacher model is often too complex for the student model to thoroughly process. However, good teachers in real life always simplify complex material before teaching it to students. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mengyang Yuan , Bo Lang , Fengnan Quan