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In this paper, we propose a novel training procedure for the continual representation learning problem in which a neural network model is sequentially learned to alleviate catastrophic forgetting in visual search tasks. Our method, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tommaso Barletti , Niccolo' Biondi , Federico Pernici , Matteo Bruni , Alberto Del Bimbo

In recent years, knowledge distillation has been proved to be an effective solution for model compression. This approach can make lightweight student models acquire the knowledge extracted from cumbersome teacher models. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xing Dai , Zeren Jiang , Zhao Wu , Yiping Bao , Zhicheng Wang , Si Liu , Erjin Zhou

Knowledge distillation, a widely used model compression technique, works on the basis of transferring knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model. The technique involves jointly optimizing the task specific and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Shreyan Ganguly , Roshan Nayak , Rakshith Rao , Ujan Deb , Prathosh AP

This article addresses the problem of distilling knowledge from a large teacher model to a slim student network for LiDAR semantic segmentation. Directly employing previous distillation approaches yields inferior results due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yuenan Hou , Xinge Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Chen Change Loy , Yikang Li

Adversarial attacks pose a significant threat to the security and safety of deep neural networks being applied to modern applications. More specifically, in computer vision-based tasks, experts can use the knowledge of model architecture to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Maniratnam Mandal , Suna Gao

Existing score distillation methods are sensitive to classifier-free guidance (CFG) scale: manifested as over-smoothness or instability at small CFG scales, while over-saturation at large ones. To explain and analyze these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Min Wei , Jingkai Zhou , Junyao Sun , Xuesong Zhang

Anomaly detection, which is a critical and popular topic in computer vision, aims to detect anomalous samples that are different from the normal (i.e., non-anomalous) ones. The current mainstream methods focus on anomaly detection for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Jianjian Qin , Chunzhi Gu , Jun Yu , Chao Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is essentially a process of transferring a teacher model's behavior, e.g., network response, to a student model. The network response serves as additional supervision to formulate the machine domain, which uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yulei Niu , Long Chen , Chang Zhou , Hanwang Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) methods can transfer knowledge of a parameter-heavy teacher model to a light-weight student model. The status quo for feature KD methods is to utilize loss functions based on logits (i.e., pre-softmax class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nicholas Cooper , Lijun Chen , Sailesh Dwivedy , Danna Gurari

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widely-used technology to inherit information from cumbersome teacher models to compact student models, consequently realizing model compression and acceleration. Compared with image classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Gang Li , Xiang Li , Yujie Wang , Shanshan Zhang , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang

In contrast to supervised backpropagation-based feature learning in deep neural networks (DNNs), an unsupervised feedforward feature (UFF) learning scheme for joint classification and segmentation of 3D point clouds is proposed in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Min Zhang , Pranav Kadam , Shan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

3D point cloud semantic segmentation is one of the fundamental tasks for environmental understanding. Although significant progress has been made in recent years, the performance of classes with few examples or few points is still far from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Shoumeng Qiu , Feng Jiang , Haiqiang Zhang , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

Knowledge distillation is a potential solution for model compression. The idea is to make a small student network imitate the target of a large teacher network, then the student network can be competitive to the teacher one. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chong Wang , Xipeng Lan , Yangang Zhang

In recent years, knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to derive efficient models. Through imitating a large teacher model, a lightweight student model can achieve comparable performance with more efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

Deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in object detection, yet their complexity and computational intensity pose a barrier to deploying them in real-world applications (e.g., self-driving perception). Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

Knowledge distillation (KD) involves transferring knowledge from a pre-trained heavy teacher model to a lighter student model, thereby reducing the inference cost while maintaining comparable effectiveness. Prior KD techniques typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jhe-Hao Lin , Yi Yao , Chan-Feng Hsu , Hongxia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) is a novel method to boost the robustness of small models. Unlike general adversarial training, its robust knowledge transfer can be less easily restricted by the model capacity. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Wenqiang Zhang , Lizhe Qi

Knowledge distillation methods compress models by training a student network using the classification outputs of a high quality teacher model, but can fail to effectively transfer the properties of computer vision foundation models from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Evelyn J. Mannix , Liam Hodgkinson , Howard Bondell

Recently, the compression and deployment of powerful deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-limited edge devices to provide intelligent services have become attractive tasks. Although knowledge distillation (KD) is a feasible solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhiwei Hao , Yong Luo , Zhi Wang , Han Hu , Jianping An

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) is a promising approach for addressing issues related to model compression, security privacy, and transmission restrictions. Although the existing methods exploiting DFKD have achieved inspiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Renrong Shao , Wei Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Jun Wang