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The representation gap between teacher and student is an emerging topic in knowledge distillation (KD). To reduce the gap and improve the performance, current methods often resort to complicated training schemes, loss functions, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tao Huang , Yuan Zhang , Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Previous logits-based Knowledge Distillation (KD) have utilized predictions about multiple categories within each sample (i.e., class predictions) and have employed Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to reduce the discrepancy between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Gyeongdo Ham , Seonghak Kim , Suin Lee , Jae-Hyeok Lee , Daeshik Kim

Benefiting from well-trained deep neural networks (DNNs), model compression have captured special attention for computing resource limited equipment, especially edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the widely used compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jinyin Chen , Xiaoming Zhao , Haibin Zheng , Xiao Li , Sheng Xiang , Haifeng Guo

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

This work studies knowledge distillation (KD) and addresses its constraints for recurrent neural network transducer (RNN-T) models. In hard distillation, a teacher model transcribes large amounts of unlabelled speech to train a student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Mohammad Zeineldeen , Kartik Audhkhasi , Murali Karthick Baskar , Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Given the exceptional performance of proprietary large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, recent research has increasingly focused on boosting the capabilities of smaller models through knowledge distillation (KD) from these powerful yet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hongzhan Chen , Ruijun Chen , Yuqi Yi , Xiaojun Quan , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang

Large pre-trained language models often struggle to incorporate new domain-specific terminology when fine-tuned on small, specialized corpora. In this work, we address the challenge of vocabulary expansion in frozen LLMs by introducing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Max Rehman Linder

Multi-microphone speech enhancement using deep neural networks (DNNs) has significantly progressed in recent years. However, many proposed DNN-based speech enhancement algorithms cannot be implemented on devices with limited hardware…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-28 Robert Metzger , Mattes Ohlenbusch , Christian Rollwage , Simon Doclo

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 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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to distill the knowledge of a cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities among categories provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Li Yuan , Francis E. H. Tay , Guilin Li , Tao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a valuable yet challenging approach that enhances a compact student network by learning from a high-performance but cumbersome teacher model. However, previous KD methods for image restoration overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yunshuai Zhou , Junbo Qiao , Jincheng Liao , Wei Li , Simiao Li , Jiao Xie , Yunhang Shen , Jie Hu , Shaohui Lin

Knowledge distillation (KD) methods can transfer knowledge of a parameter-heavy teacher model to a light-weight student model. The status quo for feature KD methods is to utilize loss functions based on logits (i.e., pre-softmax class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nicholas Cooper , Lijun Chen , Sailesh Dwivedy , Danna Gurari

Conventional knowledge distillation (KD) approaches are designed for the student model to predict similar output as the teacher model for each sample. Unfortunately, the relationship across samples with same class is often neglected. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jinjing Zhu , Songze Li , Lin Wang

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) 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

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have shown exceptional capabilities across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, such impressive performance often comes with the trade-off of an increased parameter size,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Minchong Li , Feng Zhou , Xiaohui Song

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an established paradigm for transferring privileged knowledge from a cumbersome model to a lightweight and efficient one. In recent years, logit-based KD methods are quickly catching up in performance with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Weijia Zhang , Dongnan Liu , Weidong Cai , Chao Ma

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a well-known method to reduce inference latency by compressing a cumbersome teacher model to a small student model. Despite the success of KD in the classification task, applying KD to recommender models is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Jae-woong Lee , Minjin Choi , Jongwuk Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model to enhance its performance. Existing methods often assume that the student model is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhua Zhang , Yi Gao , Ruyu Liu , Xu Cheng , Houxiang Zhang , Shengyong Chen