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Recent advances have indicated the strengths of self-supervised pre-training for improving representation learning on downstream tasks. Existing works often utilize self-supervised pre-trained models by fine-tuning on downstream tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Yuchen Ma , Yanbei Chen , Zeynep Akata

Despite that current reading comprehension systems have achieved significant advancements, their promising performances are often obtained at the cost of making an ensemble of numerous models. Besides, existing approaches are also…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Minghao Hu , Yuxing Peng , Furu Wei , Zhen Huang , Dongsheng Li , Nan Yang , Ming Zhou

Developing robotic agents that can perform well in diverse environments while showing a variety of behaviors is a key challenge in AI and robotics. Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) methods often create agents that specialize in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Octi Zhang , Quanquan Peng , Rosario Scalise , Bryon Boots

Simulators can generate virtually unlimited driving data, yet imitation learning policies in simulation still struggle to achieve robust closed-loop performance. Motivated by this gap, we empirically study how misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Long Nguyen , Micha Fauth , Bernhard Jaeger , Daniel Dauner , Maximilian Igl , Andreas Geiger , Kashyap Chitta

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective method for model compression and transferring knowledge between models. However, its effect on model's robustness against spurious correlations that degrade performance on out-of-distribution data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jiali Cheng , Chirag Agarwal , Hadi Amiri

Pedestrian trajectory forecasting is crucial in various applications such as autonomous driving and mobile robot navigation. In such applications, camera-based perception enables the extraction of additional modalities (human pose, text) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jaewoo Jeong , Seohee Lee , Daehee Park , Giwon Lee , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Many radar signal processing methodologies are being developed for critical road safety perception tasks. Unfortunately, these signal processing algorithms are often poorly suited to run on embedded hardware accelerators used in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Steven Shaw , Kanishka Tyagi , Shan Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) improves the performance of a low-complexity student model with the help of a more powerful teacher. The teacher in KD is a black-box model, imparting knowledge to the student only through its predictions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sayantan Chowdhury , Ben Liang , Ali Tizghadam , Ilijc Albanese

Vision-based end-to-end driving models trained by imitation learning can lead to affordable solutions for autonomous driving. However, training these well-performing models usually requires a huge amount of data, while still lacking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Diego Porres , Yi Xiao , Gabriel Villalonga , Alexandre Levy , Antonio M. López

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) map segmentation is one of the most important and challenging tasks in autonomous driving. Camera-only approaches have drawn attention as cost-effective alternatives to LiDAR, but they still fall behind LiDAR-Camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Beomjun Kim , Suhan Woo , Sejong Heo , Euntai Kim

With the rapid development of computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) offer the tantalising prospect of unified information processing across visual and textual domains due to the lack of inherent inductive biases in ViTs. ViTs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Gousia Habib , Tausifa Jan Saleem , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik , Brejesh Lall

Recently, research efforts have been concentrated on revealing how pre-trained model makes a difference in neural network performance. Self-supervision and semi-supervised learning technologies have been extensively explored by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Cheng Cui , Ruoyu Guo , Yuning Du , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Zewu Wu , Qiwen Liu , Shilei Wen , Jizhou Huang , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Errui Ding , Yanjun Ma

Existing Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods often align feature information between teacher and student by exploring meaningful feature processing and loss functions. However, due to the difference in feature distributions between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Wang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Weilun Feng , Jiarui Zhao , Chengqing Yu , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

Trajectory prediction remains a critical yet challenging component in autonomous driving systems, requiring sophisticated reasoning capabilities while meeting strict real-time deployment constraints. While knowledge distillation has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Wenchang Duan

In this work, we investigate the implicit regularization induced by teacher-student learning dynamics in self-distillation. To isolate its effect, we describe a simple experiment where we consider teachers at random initialization instead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Felix Sarnthein , Gregor Bachmann , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Thomas Hofmann

Knowledge distillation becomes a de facto standard to improve the performance of small neural networks. Most of the previous works propose to regress the representational features from the teacher to the student in a one-to-one spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Gang Wang

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised KD and on-policy KD, are adversely impacted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenda Xu , Rujun Han , Zifeng Wang , Long T. Le , Dhruv Madeka , Lei Li , William Yang Wang , Rishabh Agarwal , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister

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

Transformers recently are adapted from the community of natural language processing as a promising substitute of convolution-based neural networks for visual learning tasks. However, its supremacy degenerates given an insufficient amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sucheng Ren , Zhengqi Gao , Tianyu Hua , Zihui Xue , Yonglong Tian , Shengfeng He , Hang Zhao

We study policy distillation under privileged information, where a student policy with only partial observations must learn from a teacher with full-state access. A key challenge is information asymmetry: the student cannot directly access…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yujin Kim , Nathaniel Chin , Arnav Vasudev , Sanjiban Choudhury