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This paper reveals a new appeal of the recently emerged large-kernel Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets): as the teacher in Knowledge Distillation (KD) for small-kernel ConvNets. While Transformers have led state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Tianjin Huang , Lu Yin , Zhenyu Zhang , Li Shen , Meng Fang , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Zhangyang Wang , Shiwei Liu

Efficient real-time traffic prediction is crucial for reducing transportation time. To predict traffic conditions, we employ a spatio-temporal graph neural network (ST-GNN) to model our real-time traffic data as temporal graphs. Despite its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mohammad Izadi , Mehran Safayani , Abdolreza Mirzaei

Knowledge distillation refers to the process of training a compact student network to achieve better accuracy by learning from a high capacity teacher network. Most of the existing knowledge distillation methods direct the student to follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Himalaya Jain , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is essential in transferring dark knowledge from a large teacher to a small student network, such that the student can be much more efficient than the teacher but with comparable accuracy. Existing KD methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Junjie Zhou , Ke Zhu , Jianxin Wu

Though convolutional neural networks are widely used in different tasks, lack of generalization capability in the absence of sufficient and representative data is one of the challenges that hinder their practical application. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yufei Wang , Haoliang Li , Lap-pui Chau , Alex C. Kot

Knowledge distillation is a strategy of training a student network with guide of the soft output from a teacher network. It has been a successful method of model compression and knowledge transfer. However, currently knowledge distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Guangda Ji , Zhanxing Zhu

Efficient deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices demands advanced compression techniques that preserve accuracy and interoperability. This paper proposes a machine learning framework that augments Knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Ramon Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Deep learning networks are being developed in every stage of the MRI workflow and have provided state-of-the-art results. However, this has come at the cost of increased computation requirement and storage. Hence, replacing the networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Balamurali Murugesan , Sricharan Vijayarangan , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for training a compact model with the supervision of another large model, which could effectively improve the performance. Previous methods mainly focus on two aspects: 1) training the student to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tiancheng Wen , Shenqi Lai , Xueming Qian

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

With the growth of computing power neural machine translation (NMT) models also grow accordingly and become better. However, they also become harder to deploy on edge devices due to memory constraints. To cope with this problem, a common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Yimeng Wu , Peyman Passban , Mehdi Rezagholizade , Qun Liu

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

Recently, there have been significant improvements in the accuracy of CNN models for semantic segmentation. However, these models are often heavy and suffer from low inference speed, which limits their practical application. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Minglong Li , Lianlei Shan , Weiqiang Wang , Ke Lv , Bin Luo , Si-Bao Chen

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

Knowledge distillation is a standard teacher-student learning framework to train a light-weight student network under the guidance of a well-trained large teacher network. As an effective teaching strategy, interactive teaching has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Shipeng Fu , Zhen Li , Jun Xu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Zitao Liu , Xiaomin Yang

This work explores knowledge distillation (KD) for visually-rich document (VRD) applications such as document layout analysis (DLA) and document image classification (DIC). While VRD research is dependent on increasingly sophisticated and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jordy Van Landeghem , Subhajit Maity , Ayan Banerjee , Matthew Blaschko , Marie-Francine Moens , Josep Lladós , Sanket Biswas

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique where a compact student network is taught to mimic the behavior of a complex and highly trained teacher network. In contrast, Mutual Learning (ML) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Usma Niyaz , Deepti R. Bathula

Unstructured pruning remains a powerful strategy for compressing deep neural networks, yet it often demands iterative train-prune-retrain cycles, resulting in significant computational overhead. To address this challenge, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Md. Samiul Alim , Sharjil Khan , Amrijit Biswas , Fuad Rahman , Shafin Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising solution to compress large language models (LLMs) by transferring their knowledge to smaller models. During this process, white-box KD methods usually minimize the distance between the output…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Xue Zhang , Songming Zhang , Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Training a small student network with the guidance of a larger teacher network is an effective way to promote the performance of the student. Despite the different types, the guided knowledge used to distill is always kept unchanged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiangfan Han , Mengya Gao , Yujie Wang , Quanquan Li , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang