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We propose a novel knowledge distillation approach, CustomKD, that effectively leverages large vision foundation models (LVFMs) to enhance the performance of edge models (e.g., MobileNetV3). Despite recent advancements in LVFMs, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jungsoo Lee , Debasmit Das , Munawar Hayat , Sungha Choi , Kyuwoong Hwang , Fatih Porikli

Knowledge Distillation (KD) utilizes training data as a transfer set to transfer knowledge from a complex network (Teacher) to a smaller network (Student). Several works have recently identified many scenarios where the training data may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Monish Keswani , Sharan Seshadri , Anirban Chakraborty

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective tool for compressing deep classification models for edge devices. However, the performance of KD is affected by the large capacity gap between the teacher and student networks. Recent methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Ibtihel Amara , Maryam Ziaeefard , Brett H. Meyer , Warren Gross , James J. Clark

Knowledge distillation is a popular approach for enhancing the performance of ''student'' models, with lower representational capacity, by taking advantage of more powerful ''teacher'' models. Despite its apparent simplicity and widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mher Safaryan , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model with great improvements of the performance of the student model. Therefore, the student network can replace the teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jinhong Lin , Zhaoyang Li

Knowledge distillation constitutes a simple yet effective way to improve the performance of a compact student network by exploiting the knowledge of a more powerful teacher. Nevertheless, the knowledge distillation literature remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Shuxuan Guo , Jose M. Alvarez , Mathieu Salzmann

Most knowledge distillation (KD) methodologies predominantly focus on teacher-student pairs with similar architectures, such as both being convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the potential and flexibility of KD can be greatly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Guopeng Li , Qiang Wang , Ke Yan , Shouhong Ding , Yuan Gao , Gui-Song Xia

Resource-constrained perception systems such as edge computing and vision-for-robotics require vision models to be both accurate and lightweight in computation and memory usage. While knowledge distillation is a proven strategy to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shengcao Cao , Mengtian Li , James Hays , Deva Ramanan , Yi-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui

Knowledge Distillation is a technique which aims to utilize dark knowledge to compress and transfer information from a vast, well-trained neural network (teacher model) to a smaller, less capable neural network (student model) with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Fahad Rahman Amik , Ahnaf Ismat Tasin , Silvia Ahmed , M. M. Lutfe Elahi , Nabeel Mohammed

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 (KD) is one of the most potent ways for model compression. The key idea is to transfer the knowledge from a deep teacher model (T) to a shallower student (S). However, existing methods suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Chen Change Loy

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prominent architecture for various computer vision tasks. In ViT, we divide the input image into patch tokens and process them through a stack of self attention blocks. However, unlike Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Harsh Rangwani , Pradipto Mondal , Mayank Mishra , Ashish Ramayee Asokan , R. Venkatesh Babu

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

Knowledge Distillation has shown very promising abil-ity in transferring learned representation from the largermodel (teacher) to the smaller one (student).Despitemany efforts, prior methods ignore the important role ofretaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Li Liu , Qingle Huang , Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Pretrained language models have led to significant performance gains in many NLP tasks. However, the intensive computing resources to train such models remain an issue. Knowledge distillation alleviates this problem by learning a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Linqing Liu , Huan Wang , Jimmy Lin , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher to a compact yet well-performing student. Previous KD practices for pre-trained language models mainly transfer knowledge by aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lean Wang , Lei Li , Xu Sun

Knowledge distillation is a popular paradigm for learning portable neural networks by transferring the knowledge from a large model into a smaller one. Most existing approaches enhance the student model by utilizing the similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Haoran Zhao , Kun Gong , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu

In recent years, there has been a great deal of research in developing end-to-end speech recognition models, which enable simplifying the traditional pipeline and achieving promising results. Despite their remarkable performance…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-20 Ji Won Yoon , Hyeonseung Lee , Hyung Yong Kim , Won Ik Cho , Nam Soo Kim

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

Spatiotemporal forecasting often relies on computationally intensive models to capture complex dynamics. Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a key technique for creating lightweight student models, with recent advances like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenshuo Wang , Yaomin Shen , Yingjie Tan , Yihao Chen