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Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a well-known training paradigm in deep neural networks where knowledge acquired by a large teacher model is transferred to a small student. KD has proven to be an effective technique to significantly improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Philip de Rijk , Lukas Schneider , Marius Cordts , Dariu M. Gavrila

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) aims at improving the performance of a low-capacity student model by inheriting knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model. Previous KD methods typically train a student by minimizing a task-related loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Junjie Yan , Liang Wan , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Dense visual prediction tasks, such as detection and segmentation, are crucial for time-critical applications (e.g., autonomous driving and video surveillance). While deep models achieve strong performance, their efficiency remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

As a promising solution for model compression, knowledge distillation (KD) has been applied in recommender systems (RS) to reduce inference latency. Traditional solutions first train a full teacher model from the training data, and then…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Gang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Fuli Feng , Sheng Zhou , Xiangnan He

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

Despite exciting progress in pre-training for visual-linguistic (VL) representations, very few aspire to a small VL model. In this paper, we study knowledge distillation (KD) to effectively compress a transformer-based large VL model into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Lijuan Wang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a new method for transferring knowledge of a structure under training to another one. The typical application of KD is in the form of learning a small model (named as a student) by soft labels produced by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Knowledge distillation enhances the performance of compact student networks by transferring knowledge from more powerful teacher networks without introducing additional parameters. In the feature space, local regions within an individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Cuipeng Wang , Haipeng Wang

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

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring knowledge acquired in one model (a teacher) to another model (a student) that is typically smaller. Previous approaches can be expressed as a form of training the student to mimic output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Wonpyo Park , Dongju Kim , Yan Lu , Minsu Cho

Knowledge distillation (KD) exploits a large well-trained model (i.e., teacher) to train a small student model on the same dataset for the same task. Treating teacher features as knowledge, prevailing methods of knowledge distillation train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yuzhu Wang , Lechao Cheng , Manni Duan , Yongheng Wang , Zunlei Feng , Shu Kong

In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving, LiDAR-Camera (LC) fusion is the top-performing sensor configuration. Still, LiDAR is relatively high cost, which hinders adoption of this technology for consumer automobiles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Lingjun Zhao , Jingyu Song , Katherine A. Skinner

Knowledge distillation (KD) represents a vital mechanism to transfer expertise from complex teacher networks to efficient student models. However, in decentralized or secure AI ecosystems, privacy regulations and proprietary interests often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tri-Nhan Vo , Dang Nguyen , Trung Le , Kien Do , Sunil Gupta

Knowledge distillation (KD) has enabled remarkable progress in model compression and knowledge transfer. However, KD requires a large volume of original data or their representation statistics that are not usually available in practice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Pengchao Han , Jihong Park , Shiqiang Wang , Yejun Liu

Speech denoising is a generally adopted and impactful task, appearing in many common and everyday-life use cases. Although there are very powerful methods published, most of those are too complex for deployment in everyday and low-resources…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Diep Luong , Mikko Heikkinen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

The widespread deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is hindered by the high computational demands, making knowledge distillation (KD) crucial for developing compact smaller ones. However, the conventional KD methods endure the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zengkui Sun , Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is an important and challenging task in autonomous driving. Recently, there has been a growing interest in cost-effective multi-view camera-based methods without relying on other sensors like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiaoshuai Hao , Ruikai Li , Hui Zhang , Dingzhe Li , Rong Yin , Sangil Jung , Seung-In Park , ByungIn Yoo , Haimei Zhao , Jing Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD), which can efficiently transfer knowledge from a cumbersome network (teacher) to a compact network (student), has demonstrated its advantages in some computer vision applications. The representation of knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Han Zhu , Zhenzhong Chen , Shan Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD)transfers the dark knowledge from a complex teacher to a compact student. However, heterogeneous architecture distillation, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) to ResNet18, faces challenges due to differences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Liuchi Xu , Hao Zheng , Lu Wang , Lisheng Xu , Jun Cheng