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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have improved NLP tasks significantly, but training and maintaining such networks could be costly. Model compression techniques, such as, knowledge distillation (KD), have been proposed to address the issue;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manas Mohanty , Tanya Roosta , Peyman Passban

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

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

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

Leveraging the capabilities of Knowledge Distillation (KD) strategies, we devise a strategy to fight the recent retraction of face recognition datasets. Given a pretrained Teacher model trained on a real dataset, we show that carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Pedro C. Neto , Ivona Colakovic , Sašo Karakatič , Ana F. Sequeira

Knowledge distillation is an effective and stable method for model compression via knowledge transfer. Conventional knowledge distillation (KD) is to transfer knowledge from a large and well pre-trained teacher network to a small student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Zhiqiang Liu , Yanxia Liu , Chengkai Huang

Online Knowledge Distillation (OKD) methods streamline the distillation training process into a single stage, eliminating the need for knowledge transfer from a pretrained teacher network to a more compact student network. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhaowei Chen , Borui Zhao , Yuchen Ge , Yuhao Chen , Renjie Song , Jiajun Liang

Deep cascaded architectures for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acceleration have shown remarkable success in providing high-quality reconstruction. However, as the number of cascades increases, the improvements in reconstruction tend to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Matcha Naga Gayathri , Sriprabha Ramanarayanan , Mohammad Al Fahim , Rahul G S , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a well-known method for compressing neural models. However, works focusing on distilling knowledge from large multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models into smaller ones are practically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Varun Gumma , Raj Dabre , Pratyush Kumar

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to transfer knowledge from large, accurate models (teachers) to smaller, efficient ones (students). Recent methods have explored enforcing consistency by incorporating causal interpretations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

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…

In recent years, knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to derive efficient models. Through imitating a large teacher model, a lightweight student model can achieve comparable performance with more efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a standard route to compress Large Language Models (LLMs) into compact students, yet most pipelines uniformly apply token-wise loss regardless of teacher confidence. This indiscriminate supervision amplifies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Haiduo Huang , Jiangcheng Song , Yadong Zhang , Pengju Ren

Knowledge distillation is a popular paradigm for learning portable neural networks by transferring the knowledge from a large model into a smaller one. Most existing approaches enhance the student model by utilizing the similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Haoran Zhao , Kun Gong , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu

Sequence-level knowledge distillation (SLKD) is a model compression technique that leverages large, accurate teacher models to train smaller, under-parameterized student models. Why does pre-processing MT data with SLKD help us train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mitchell A. Gordon , Kevin Duh

Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable improvement across many tasks but incur high computational and memory costs. Knowledge distillation (KD) mitigates this issue by transferring knowledge from a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Donghyeok Shin , Yeongmin Kim , Suhyeon Jo , Byeonghu Na , Il-Chul Moon

This paper explores the use of knowledge distillation to improve a Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) (Liu et al., 2019) for learning text representations across multiple natural language understanding tasks. Although ensemble learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Xiaodong Liu , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Jianfeng Gao

Recent neural methods for vehicle routing problems always train and test the deep models on the same instance distribution (i.e., uniform). To tackle the consequent cross-distribution generalization concerns, we bring the knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Jieyi Bi , Yining Ma , Jiahai Wang , Zhiguang Cao , Jinbiao Chen , Yuan Sun , Yeow Meng Chee

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a simple and successful method to transfer knowledge from a teacher to a student model solely based on functional activity. However, current KD has a few shortcomings: it has recently been shown that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Arne F. Nix , Max F. Burg , Fabian H. Sinz

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