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Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique for transferring knowledge from complex teacher models to simpler student models, significantly enhancing model efficiency and accuracy. It has demonstrated substantial advancements in various…

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Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective technique to transfer knowledge from one neural network (teacher) to another (student), thus improving the performance of the student. To make the student better mimic the behavior of the teacher,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xiang Deng , Zhongfei , Zhang

Heterogeneous Federated Learning (HFL) has gained significant attention for its capacity to handle both model and data heterogeneity across clients. Prototype-based HFL methods emerge as a promising solution to address statistical and model…

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Federated graph learning (FGL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for collaborative graph representation learning, enabling multiple parties to jointly train models while preserving data privacy. However, most existing approaches assume…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zhengyu Wu , Guang Zeng , Huilin Lai , Daohan Su , Jishuo Jia , Yinlin Zhu , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Chenghu Zhou

In federated learning, all networked clients contribute to the model training cooperatively. However, with model sizes increasing, even sharing the trained partial models often leads to severe communication bottlenecks in underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Rui Song , Dai Liu , Dave Zhenyu Chen , Andreas Festag , Carsten Trinitis , Martin Schulz , Alois Knoll

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a machine learning framework that transfers knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. The vanilla KD proposed by Hinton et al. has been the dominant approach in logit-based distillation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jiangnan Zhu , Yukai Xu , Li Xiong , Yixuan Liu , Junxu Liu , Hong kyu Lee , Yujie Gu

The challenge of data scarcity hinders the application of deep learning in industrial surface defect classification (SDC), as it's difficult to collect and centralize sufficient training data from various entities in Industrial Internet of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Jixuan Cui , Jun Li , Zhen Mei , Yiyang Ni , Wen Chen , Zengxiang Li

Knowledge distillation (KD) has proved to be an effective approach for deep neural network compression, which learns a compact network (student) by transferring the knowledge from a pre-trained, over-parameterized network (teacher). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi Wang

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a promising technique for reducing the high computational demand of large language models (LLMs). However, previous KD methods are primarily applied to white-box classification models or training small models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuxian Gu , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Minlie Huang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) refers to transferring knowledge from a large model to a smaller one, which is widely used to enhance model performance in machine learning. It tries to align embedding spaces generated from the teacher and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Weidong Shi , Guanghui Ren , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan

Heterogeneous federated learning (HFL) aims to ensure effective and privacy-preserving collaboration among different entities. As newly joined clients require significant adjustments and additional training to align with the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Kaile Wang , Jiannong Cao , Yu Yang , Xiaoyin Li , Mingjin Zhang

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

Federated learning (FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models under the coordination of a server in a privacy-preserving manner. One of the main challenges in FL is that the server may not receive local updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Chutian Jiang , Hansong Zhou , Xiaonan Zhang , Shayok Chakraborty

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralised model training across distributed clients without requiring data centralisation. However, the generalisation performance of the global model is usually degraded by data heterogeneity across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Ozgu Goksu , Nicolas Pugeault

Federated learning provides the ability to learn over heterogeneous user data in a distributed manner while preserving user privacy. However, its current client selection technique is a source of bias as it discriminates against slow…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Ammar Tahir , Yongzhou Chen , Prashanti Nilayam

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed training paradigm that enables clients scattered across the world to cooperatively learn a global model without divulging confidential data. However, FL faces a significant challenge in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Xidong Wu , Wan-Yi Lin , Devin Willmott , Filipe Condessa , Yufei Huang , Zhenzhen Li , Madan Ravi Ganesh

Data heterogeneity presents significant challenges for federated learning (FL). Recently, dataset distillation techniques have been introduced, and performed at the client level, to attempt to mitigate some of these challenges. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yuqi Jia , Saeed Vahidian , Jingwei Sun , Jianyi Zhang , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yiran Chen

Data heterogeneity across clients is one of the key challenges in Federated Learning (FL), which may slow down the global model convergence and even weaken global model performance. Most existing approaches tackle the heterogeneity by…

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