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Deep neural networks are parametrized by several thousands or millions of parameters, and have shown tremendous success in many classification problems. However, the large number of parameters makes it difficult to integrate these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Eun Som Jeon , Anirudh Som , Ankita Shukla , Kristina Hasanaj , Matthew P. Buman , Pavan Turaga

Knowledge distillation (KD) enhances the performance of a student network by allowing it to learn the knowledge transferred from a teacher network incrementally. Existing methods dynamically adjust the temperature to enable the student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhengbo Zhang , Yuxi Zhou , Jia Gong , Jun Liu , Zhigang Tu

We address the challenge of producing trustworthy and accurate compact models for edge devices. While Knowledge Distillation (KD) has improved model compression in terms of achieving high accuracy performance, calibration of these compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ibtihel Amara , Nazanin Sepahvand , Brett H. Meyer , Warren J. Gross , James J. Clark

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Quantization-aware training (QAT) and Knowledge Distillation (KD) are combined to achieve competitive performance in creating low-bit deep learning models. Existing KD and QAT works focus on improving the accuracy of quantized models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Justin Kur , Kaiqi Zhao

Knowledge Distillation (KD), a learning manner with a larger teacher network guiding a smaller student network, transfers dark knowledge from the teacher to the student via logits or intermediate features, with the aim of producing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Chengting Yu , Fengzhao Zhang , Ruizhe Chen , Aili Wang , Zuozhu Liu , Shurun Tan , Er-Ping Li

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a very popular method for model size reduction. Recently, the technique is exploited for quantized deep neural networks (QDNNs) training as a way to restore the performance sacrificed by word-length reduction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Sungho Shin , Yoonho Boo , Wonyong Sung

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

With the increasing popularity of deep learning on edge devices, compressing large neural networks to meet the hardware requirements of resource-constrained devices became a significant research direction. Numerous compression methodologies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kuluhan Binici , Nam Trung Pham , Tulika Mitra , Karianto Leman

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been extensively studied in single-label image classification. However, its efficacy for multi-label classification remains relatively unexplored. In this study, we firstly investigate the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Youcai Zhang , Yuzhuo Qin , Hengwei Liu , Yanhao Zhang , Yaqian Li , Xiaodong Gu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to transfer knowledge from large, accurate models (teachers) to smaller, efficient ones (students). Recent methods have explored enforcing consistency by incorporating causal interpretations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods are capable of transferring the knowledge encoded in a large and complex teacher into a smaller and faster student. Early methods were usually limited to transferring the knowledge only between the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nikolaos Passalis , Maria Tzelepi , Anastasios Tefas

The concept of knowledge distillation (KD) describes the training of a student model from a teacher model and is a widely adopted technique in deep learning. However, it is still not clear how and why distillation works. Previous studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Giulia Lanzillotta , Felix Sarnthein , Gil Kur , Thomas Hofmann , Bobby He

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

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) predominantly emphasize feature-level knowledge transfer, frequently overlooking critical information embedded within the teacher's logit distributions. In this paper, we revisit logit-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qi Wang , Jinjia Zhou

Developing deep learning models to analyze histology images has been computationally challenging, as the massive size of the images causes excessive strain on all parts of the computing pipeline. This paper proposes a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-13 Joseph DiPalma , Arief A. Suriawinata , Laura J. Tafe , Lorenzo Torresani , Saeed Hassanpour

Compared with the feature-based distillation methods, logits distillation can liberalize the requirements of consistent feature dimension between teacher and student networks, while the performance is deemed inferior in face recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Weisong Zhao , Xiangyu Zhu , Kaiwen Guo , Xiao-Yu Zhang , Zhen Lei

Condensed datasets offer a compact representation of larger datasets, but training models directly on them or using them to enhance model performance through knowledge distillation (KD) can result in suboptimal outcomes due to limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Kuluhan Binici , Shivam Aggarwal , Cihan Acar , Nam Trung Pham , Karianto Leman , Gim Hee Lee , Tulika Mitra

In the era of large scale pretrained models, Knowledge Distillation (KD) serves an important role in transferring the wisdom of computationally heavy teacher models to lightweight, efficient student models while preserving performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Alex Wilf , Alex Tianyi Xu , Paul Pu Liang , Alexander Obolenskiy , Daniel Fried , Louis-Philippe Morency

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common method for transferring the ``knowledge'' learned by one machine learning model (the \textit{teacher}) into another model (the \textit{student}), where typically, the teacher has a greater capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Jie Fu , Xue Geng , Zhijian Duan , Bohan Zhuang , Xingdi Yuan , Adam Trischler , Jie Lin , Chris Pal , Hao Dong