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Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widely-used technology to inherit information from cumbersome teacher models to compact student models, consequently realizing model compression and acceleration. Compared with image classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Gang Li , Xiang Li , Yujie Wang , Shanshan Zhang , Yichao Wu , Ding Liang

Training a small student network with the guidance of a larger teacher network is an effective way to promote the performance of the student. Despite the different types, the guided knowledge used to distill is always kept unchanged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiangfan Han , Mengya Gao , Yujie Wang , Quanquan Li , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang

Dense visual prediction tasks, such as detection and segmentation, are crucial for time-critical applications (e.g., autonomous driving and video surveillance). While deep models achieve strong performance, their efficiency remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

Knowledge distillation (KD), which can efficiently transfer knowledge from a cumbersome network (teacher) to a compact network (student), has demonstrated its advantages in some computer vision applications. The representation of knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Han Zhu , Zhenzhong Chen , Shan Liu

Large-scale language models have recently demonstrated impressive empirical performance. Nevertheless, the improved results are attained at the price of bigger models, more power consumption, and slower inference, which hinder their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Kevin J Liang , Weituo Hao , Dinghan Shen , Yufan Zhou , Weizhu Chen , Changyou Chen , Lawrence Carin

Knowledge distillation involves transferring knowledge from large, cumbersome teacher models to more compact student models. The standard approach minimizes the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the probabilistic outputs of a teacher…

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

Despite exciting progress in pre-training for visual-linguistic (VL) representations, very few aspire to a small VL model. In this paper, we study knowledge distillation (KD) to effectively compress a transformer-based large VL model into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Lijuan Wang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising technique for addressing the computational challenges associated with deploying large-scale recommender systems. KD transfers the knowledge of a massive teacher system to a compact…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Gyuseok Lee , SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Hwanjo Yu

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD), aiming to train a better student model by mimicking the teacher model, plays an important role in model compression. One typical way is to align the output logits. However, we find a common issue named…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Runming Yang , Taiqiang Wu , Yujiu Yang

Knowledge distillation typically involves transferring knowledge from a Large Language Model (LLM) to a Smaller Language Model (SLM). However, in tasks such as text matching, fine-tuned smaller models often yield more effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Mingzhe Li , Jing Xiang , Qishen Zhang , Kaiyang Wan , Xiuying Chen

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 powerful approach for compressing a large model into a smaller, more efficient model, particularly beneficial for latency-sensitive applications like recommender systems. However, current KD research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Nikhil Khani , Shuo Yang , Aniruddh Nath , Yang Liu , Pendo Abbo , Li Wei , Shawn Andrews , Maciej Kula , Jarrod Kahn , Zhe Zhao , Lichan Hong , Ed Chi

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted approach for compressing large neural networks by transferring knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. In the context of large language models, token level KD,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yihan Cao , Yanbin Kang , Zhengming Xing , Ruijie Jiang

In recent years, deep learning has spread rapidly, and deeper, larger models have been proposed. However, the calculation cost becomes enormous as the size of the models becomes larger. Various techniques for compressing the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hideki Oki , Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

Knowledge distillation (KD) exploits a large well-trained model (i.e., teacher) to train a small student model on the same dataset for the same task. Treating teacher features as knowledge, prevailing methods of knowledge distillation train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yuzhu Wang , Lechao Cheng , Manni Duan , Yongheng Wang , Zunlei Feng , Shu Kong

In this work, we propose Mutual Information Maximization Knowledge Distillation (MIMKD). Our method uses a contrastive objective to simultaneously estimate and maximize a lower bound on the mutual information of local and global feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Aman Shrivastava , Yanjun Qi , Vicente Ordonez

We investigate cross-quality knowledge distillation (CQKD), a knowledge distillation method where knowledge from a teacher network trained with full-resolution images is transferred to a student network that takes as input low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Pia Čuk , Robin Senge , Mikko Lauri , Simone Frintrop

The emergence of Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) has advanced Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), but their size limits deployment in resource-constrained environments. While Knowledge Distillation is effective for LALM compression,…

Deep learning based models are relatively large, and it is hard to deploy such models on resource-limited devices such as mobile phones and embedded devices. One possible solution is knowledge distillation whereby a smaller model (student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Abdolmaged Alkhulaifi , Fahad Alsahli , Irfan Ahmad