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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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student by aligning their predictive distributions. However, conventional KD formulations - typically based on Kullback-Leibler divergence - assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ondrej Tybl , Lukas Neumann

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been extensively used for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks to improve a small model's (a student) generalization by transferring the knowledge from a larger model (a teacher). Although KD methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Aref Jafari , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pascal Poupart , Ali Ghodsi

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become a widely used technique in the field of model compression, which aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a lightweight student model for efficient network development. In addition to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Weichao Lan , Yiu-ming Cheung , Qing Xu , Buhua Liu , Zhikai Hu , Mengke Li , Zhenghua Chen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) can transfer the reasoning abilities of large models to smaller ones, which can reduce the costs to generate Chain-of-Thoughts for reasoning tasks. KD methods typically ask the student to mimic the teacher's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minsang Kim , Seung Jun Baek

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for compressing large models into smaller, more efficient student models that can be deployed on devices with limited computational resources. Among various KD methods, Relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Chen-Yu Liu , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Keisuke Murota , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Enrico Rinaldi

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

Despite the advanced intelligence abilities of large language models (LLMs) in various applications, they still face significant computational and storage demands. Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as an effective strategy to improve…

Skin cancer is one of the most common types of malignancy, affecting a large population and causing a heavy economic burden worldwide. Over the last few years, computer-aided diagnosis has been rapidly developed and make great progress in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yongwei Wang , Yuheng Wang , Tim K. Lee , Chunyan Miao , Z. Jane Wang

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as a pivotal methodology for transferring advanced capabilities from leading proprietary LLMs, such as GPT-4, to their open-source counterparts like LLaMA and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaohan Xu , Ming Li , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Reynold Cheng , Jinyang Li , Can Xu , Dacheng Tao , Tianyi Zhou

Knowledge Distillation (KD) trains a smaller student model using a large, pre-trained teacher model, with temperature as a key hyperparameter controlling the softness of output probabilities. Traditional methods use a fixed temperature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sibgat Ul Islam , Jawad Ibn Ahad , Fuad Rahman , Mohammad Ruhul Amin , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

We propose a response-based method of knowledge distillation (KD) for the head pose estimation problem. A student model trained by the proposed KD achieves results better than a teacher model, which is atypical for the response-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Andrey Sheka , Victor Samun

This paper discusses four facets of the Knowledge Distillation (KD) process for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures, particularly when executed on edge devices with constrained processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 John Violos , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

Knowledge distillation aims to enhance the performance of a lightweight student model by exploiting the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher model. However, in the traditional knowledge distillation, teacher predictions are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shiya Luo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful technique for transferring knowledge between neural network models, where a pre-trained teacher model is used to facilitate the training of the target student model. However, the availability of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xucong Wang , Pengchao Han , Lei Guo

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient approach to transfer the knowledge from a large "teacher" network to a smaller "student" network. Traditional KD methods require lots of labeled training samples and a white-box teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Kien Do , Svetha Venkatesh

Device-directed speech detection (DDSD) is a binary classification task that separates the user's queries to a voice assistant (VA) from background speech or side conversations. This is important for achieving naturalistic user experience.…

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique where a compact student network is taught to mimic the behavior of a complex and highly trained teacher network. In contrast, Mutual Learning (ML) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Usma Niyaz , Deepti R. Bathula

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

Due to environmental changes and sensor aging, sensor drift challenges the performance of electronic nose systems in gas classification during real-world deployment. Previous studies using the UCI Gas Sensor Array Drift Dataset reported…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Juntao Lin , Xianghao Zhan