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The advent of scalable deep models and large datasets has improved the performance of Neural Machine Translation. Knowledge Distillation (KD) enhances efficiency by transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a more compact student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Heegon Jin , Seonil Son , Jemin Park , Youngseok Kim , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee

Knowledge distillation optimises a smaller student model to behave similarly to a larger teacher model, retaining some of the performance benefits. While this method can improve results on in-distribution examples, it does not necessarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Joe Stacey , Marek Rei

Knowledge distillation is an effective and stable method for model compression via knowledge transfer. Conventional knowledge distillation (KD) is to transfer knowledge from a large and well pre-trained teacher network to a small student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Zhiqiang Liu , Yanxia Liu , Chengkai Huang

Inspired by the strong correlation between the Label Smoothing Regularization(LSR) and Knowledge distillation(KD), we propose an algorithm LsrKD for training boost by extending the LSR method to the KD regime and applying a softer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ji-Yue Wang , Pei Zhang , Wen-feng Pang , Jie Li

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to improve the test accuracy of a "student" network, by training it to mimic the soft probabilities of a trained "teacher" network. Yet, it has been shown in recent work that, despite being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Aditya Krishna Menon , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Hossein Mobahi , Sanjiv Kumar

We present Knowledge Distillation with Meta Learning (MetaDistil), a simple yet effective alternative to traditional knowledge distillation (KD) methods where the teacher model is fixed during training. We show the teacher network can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wangchunshu Zhou , Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

LLMs are increasingly explored for bundle generation, thanks to their reasoning capabilities and knowledge. However, deploying large-scale LLMs introduces significant efficiency challenges, primarily high computational costs during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Kaidong Feng , Zhu Sun , Jie Yang , Hui Fang , Xinghua Qu , Wenyuan Liu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a popular technique to transfer knowledge from a teacher model or ensemble to a student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities/consistency between the class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Zhen Huang , Xu Shen , Jun Xing , Tongliang Liu , Xinmei Tian , Houqiang Li , Bing Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to learn a compact student network using knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher network, where both networks are trained on data from the same distribution. However, in practical applications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Gang Niu , Hongyuan Zhu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chen Gong , Masashi Sugiyama

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved notable performance in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing with various applications in both academia and industry. However, with recent advancements in DNNs and…

In instance-level detection tasks (e.g., object detection), reducing input resolution is an easy option to improve runtime efficiency. However, this option traditionally hurts the detection performance much. This paper focuses on boosting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Lu Qi , Jason Kuen , Jiuxiang Gu , Zhe Lin , Yi Wang , Yukang Chen , Yanwei Li , Jiaya Jia

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been shown to be highly effective in guiding a student model with a larger teacher model and achieving practical benefits in improving the computational and memory efficiency for large language models (LLMs).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Chen Jia

Vision-based crack detection faces deployment challenges due to the size of robust models and edge device limitations. These can be addressed with lightweight models trained with knowledge distillation (KD). However, state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zhaohui Chen , Elyas Asadi Shamsabadi , Sheng Jiang , Luming Shen , Daniel Dias-da-Costa

We investigate whether knowledge distillation (KD) from multiple heterogeneous teacher models can enhance the generation of transferable adversarial examples. A lightweight student model is trained using two KD strategies: curriculum-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Siddhartha Pradhan , Shikshya Shiwakoti , Neha Bathuri

Kullback-Leiber divergence has been widely used in Knowledge Distillation (KD) to compress Large Language Models (LLMs). Contrary to prior assertions that reverse Kullback-Leibler (RKL) divergence is mode-seeking and thus preferable over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Taiqiang Wu , Chaofan Tao , Jiahao Wang , Runming Yang , Zhe Zhao , Ngai Wong

Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher model to a lightweight one, significantly reducing computational and storage requirements. However, the inherent learning capacity gap between the teacher and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zhaoyi Yan , Binghui Chen , Yunfan Liu , Qixiang Ye

Existing knowledge distillation methods generally use a teacher-student approach, where the student network solely learns from a well-trained teacher. However, this approach overlooks the inherent differences in learning abilities between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Long Liu , Tong Li , Hui Cheng

In this paper, we focus on developing knowledge distillation (KD) for compact 3D detectors. We observe that off-the-shelf KD methods manifest their efficacy only when the teacher model and student counterpart share similar intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Mingbao Lin , Jihao Yin , Baochang Zhang , Xianbin Cao

Knowledge distillation is a model compression technique in which a compact "student" network is trained to replicate the predictive behavior of a larger "teacher" network. In logit-based knowledge distillation, it has become the de facto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ejafa Bassam , Dawei Zhu , Kaigui Bian