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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

Adversarial training is the most promising method for learning robust models against adversarial examples. A recent study has shown that knowledge distillation between the same architectures is effective in improving the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Tomokatsu Takahashi , Masanori Yamada , Yuuki Yamanaka , Tomoya Yamashita

As a fundamental problem, numerous methods are dedicated to the optimization of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), in a multi-user setting. Although traditional model-based optimization methods achieve strong performance, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Longfei Ma , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang , Zhisheng Yin , Haibo Zhou , Wei Quan

This paper proposes a novel knowledge distillation-based learning method to improve the classification performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) without a pre-trained teacher network, called exit-ensemble distillation. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Hojung Lee , Jong-Seok Lee

Large pretrained language models have achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of downstream tasks. Knowledge Distillation (KD) into a smaller student model addresses their inefficiency, allowing for deployment in resource-constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Aashka Trivedi , Takuma Udagawa , Michele Merler , Rameswar Panda , Yousef El-Kurdi , Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee

Adversarial attacks significantly threaten the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). Despite the multiple defensive methods employed, they are nevertheless vulnerable to poison attacks, where attackers meddle with the initial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Bakary Badjie , José Cecílio , António Casimiro

In many practical scenarios -- like hyperparameter search or continual retraining with new data -- related training runs are performed many times in sequence. Current practice is to train each of these models independently from scratch. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Xingyu Liu , Alex Leonardi , Lu Yu , Chris Gilmer-Hill , Matthew Leavitt , Jonathan Frankle

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a well-known technique to effectively compress a large network (teacher) to a smaller network (student) with little sacrifice in performance. However, most KD methods require a large training set and internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tri-Nhan Vo , Dang Nguyen , Kien Do , Sunil Gupta

Adversarial distillation (AD) is a knowledge distillation technique that facilitates the transfer of robustness from teacher deep neural network (DNN) models to lightweight target (student) DNN models, enabling the target models to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhenyu Liu , Huizhi Liang , Xinrun Li , Vaclav Snasel , Varun Ojha

Benefiting from well-trained deep neural networks (DNNs), model compression have captured special attention for computing resource limited equipment, especially edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the widely used compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jinyin Chen , Xiaoming Zhao , Haibin Zheng , Xiao Li , Sheng Xiang , Haifeng Guo

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance for artificial intelligence tasks. The success behind intelligent systems often relies on large-scale models with high computational complexity and storage costs. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chuanguang Yang , Xinqiang Yu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Adversarial Training is a practical approach for improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Although bringing reliable robustness, the performance towards clean examples is negatively affected after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shiji Zhao , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

Deep graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown to be expressive for modeling graph-structured data. Nevertheless, the over-stacked architecture of deep graph models makes it difficult to deploy and rapidly test on mobile or embedded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Huarui He , Jie Wang , Zhanqiu Zhang , Feng Wu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is generally considered as a technique for performing model compression and learned-label smoothing. However, in this paper, we study and investigate the KD approach from a new perspective: we study its efficacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Nandan Kumar Jha , Rajat Saini , Sparsh Mittal

Neural networks can learn spurious correlations in the data, often leading to performance degradation for underrepresented subgroups. Studies have demonstrated that the disparity is amplified when knowledge is distilled from a complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Patrik Kenfack , Ulrich Aïvodji , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to produce portable and efficient neural networks which can be well applied on edge devices for computer vision tasks. However, almost all top-performing knowledge distillation methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu , Huiyu Zhou

Many recent works on knowledge distillation have provided ways to transfer the knowledge of a trained network for improving the learning process of a new one, but finding a good technique for knowledge distillation is still an open problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Byeongho Heo , Minsik Lee , Sangdoo Yun , Jin Young Choi

Neural architecture search (NAS) targets at finding the optimal architecture of a neural network for a problem or a family of problems. Evaluations of neural architectures are very time-consuming. One of the possible ways to mitigate this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ilya Trofimov , Nikita Klyuchnikov , Mikhail Salnikov , Alexander Filippov , Evgeny Burnaev

Knowledge distillation has become an important approach to obtain a compact yet effective model. To achieve this goal, a small student model is trained to exploit the knowledge of a large well-trained teacher model. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhiqiang Liu , Chengkai Huang , Yanxia Liu

Although existing backdoor defenses have gained success in mitigating backdoor attacks, they still face substantial challenges. In particular, most of them rely on large amounts of clean data to weaken the backdoor mapping but generally…

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