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Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

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

Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been validated as an effective model compression technique for learning compact object detectors. Existing state-of-the-art KD methods for object detection are mostly based on feature imitation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jiabao Wang , Yuming Chen , Zhaohui Zheng , Xiang Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Qibin Hou

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Junjie Yang , Junhao Song , Xudong Han , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Yichao Zhang , Qian Niu , Benji Peng , Keyu Chen , Ming Liu

Instance-aware embeddings predicted by deep neural networks have revolutionized biomedical instance segmentation, but its resource requirements are substantial. Knowledge distillation offers a solution by transferring distilled knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Xiaoyu Liu , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Huang , Bo Hu , Xiaoyan Sun , Feng Wu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a key technique for compressing large-scale language models (LLMs), yet prevailing logit-based methods typically employ static strategies that are misaligned with the dynamic learning process of student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Xurong Xie , Zhucun Xue , Jiafu Wu , Jian Li , Yabiao Wang , Xiaobin Hu , Yong Liu , Jiangning Zhang

Performance of trimap-free image matting methods is limited when trying to decouple the deterministic and undetermined regions, especially in the scenes where foregrounds are semantically ambiguous, chromaless, or high transmittance. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Cheng Lyu , Jiake Xie , Bo Xu , Cheng Lu , Han Huang , Xin Huang , Ming Wu , Chuang Zhang , Yong Tang

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) enables a smaller "student" model to mimic a larger "teacher" model by transferring knowledge from the teacher's output or features. However, most KD methods treat all samples uniformly, overlooking the varying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chi-Ping Su , Ching-Hsun Tseng , Bin Pu , Lei Zhao , Jiewen Yang , Zhuangzhuang Chen , Shin-Jye Lee

Both accuracy and efficiency are of significant importance to the task of semantic segmentation. Existing deep FCNs suffer from heavy computations due to a series of high-resolution feature maps for preserving the detailed knowledge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Tong He , Chunhua Shen , Zhi Tian , Dong Gong , Changming Sun , Youliang Yan

The amount of medical images for training deep classification models is typically very scarce, making these deep models prone to overfit the training data. Studies showed that knowledge distillation (KD), especially the mean-teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Xiaohan Xing , Yuenan Hou , Hang Li , Yixuan Yuan , Hongsheng Li , Max Q. -H. Meng

Foundation models deliver strong perception but are often too computationally heavy to deploy, and adapting them typically requires costly annotations. We introduce a semi-supervised knowledge distillation (SSKD) framework that compresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Pardis Taghavi , Tian Liu , Renjie Li , Reza Langari , Zhengzhong Tu

Knowledge Distillation is crucial for optimizing face recognition models for deployment in computationally limited settings, such as edge devices. Traditional KD methods, such as Raw L2 Feature Distillation or Feature Consistency loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Durgesh Mishra , Rishabh Uikey

Knowledge distillation facilitates the training of a compact student network by using a deep teacher one. While this has achieved great success in many tasks, it remains completely unstudied for image-based 6D object pose estimation. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Shuxuan Guo , Yinlin Hu , Jose M. Alvarez , Mathieu Salzmann

Knowledge distillation is a method of transferring the knowledge from a pretrained complex teacher model to a student model, so a smaller network can replace a large teacher network at the deployment stage. To reduce the necessity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mingi Ji , Seungjae Shin , Seunghyun Hwang , Gibeom Park , Il-Chul Moon

Current Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods for semantic segmentation often guide the student to mimic the teacher's structured information generated from individual data samples. However, they ignore the global semantic relations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Chuanguang Yang , Helong Zhou , Zhulin An , Xue Jiang , Yongjun Xu , Qian Zhang

Transformer-based detectors (DETRs) are becoming popular for their simple framework, but the large model size and heavy time consumption hinder their deployment in the real world. While knowledge distillation (KD) can be an appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jiahao Chang , Shuo Wang , Haiming Xu , Zehui Chen , Chenhongyi Yang , Feng Zhao

Advanced cognition can be extracted from the human brain using brain-computer interfaces. Integrating these interfaces with computer vision techniques, which possess efficient feature extraction capabilities, can achieve more robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zixing Li , Chao Yan , Zhen Lan , Xiaojia Xiang , Han Zhou , Jun Lai , Dengqing Tang

Black-Box Knowledge Distillation (B2KD) is a formulated problem for cloud-to-edge model compression with invisible data and models hosted on the server. B2KD faces challenges such as limited Internet exchange and edge-cloud disparity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jing Ma , Xiang Xiang , Ke Wang , Yuchuan Wu , Yongbin Li