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Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) aims to distill pretrained knowledge to a student model with the help of a generator without using original data. In such data-free scenarios, achieving stable performance of DFKD is essential due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Hyunjune Shin , Dong-Wan Choi

Document-level knowledge graph (KG) construction faces a fundamental scaling challenge: existing methods either rely on expensive large language models (LLMs), making them economically nonviable for large-scale corpora, or employ smaller…

While many systems have been developed to train Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), efficient model inference and evaluation remain to be addressed. For instance, using the widely adopted node-wise approach, model evaluation can account for up to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Peiqi Yin , Xiao Yan , Jinjing Zhou , Qiang Fu , Zhenkun Cai , James Cheng , Bo Tang , Minjie Wang

Weakly-supervised semantic segmentation aims to assign category labels to each pixel using weak annotations, significantly reducing manual annotation costs. Although existing methods have achieved remarkable progress in well-lit scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Chunyan Wang , Dong Zhang , Jinhui Tang

Although the convolutional neural network (CNN) has achieved excellent performance in vision tasks by extracting the intra-sample representation, it will take a higher training expense because of stacking numerous convolutional layers.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Ziheng Jiao , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

Knowledge distillation is the technique of compressing a larger neural network, known as the teacher, into a smaller neural network, known as the student, while still trying to maintain the performance of the larger neural network as much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Tianxun Zhou , Keng-Hwee Chiam

With the success of deep neural networks, knowledge distillation which guides the learning of a small student network from a large teacher network is being actively studied for model compression and transfer learning. However, few studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Wonchul Son , Jaemin Na , Junyong Choi , Wonjun Hwang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is an effective framework for compressing deep learning models, realized by a student-teacher paradigm requiring small student networks to mimic the soft target generated by well-trained teachers. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common knowledge transfer algorithm used for model compression across a variety of deep learning based natural language processing (NLP) solutions. In its regular manifestations, KD requires access to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ahmad Rashid , Vasileios Lioutas , Abbas Ghaddar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been employed as a kind of significant tool on many graph-based applications recently. Inspired by convolutional neural networks (CNNs), GCNs generate the embeddings of nodes by aggregating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Tao Huang , Yihan Zhang , Jiajing Wu , Junyuan Fang , Zibin Zheng

Knowledge distillation is a popular machine learning technique that aims to transfer knowledge from a large 'teacher' network to a smaller 'student' network and improve the student's performance by training it to emulate the teacher. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Sushil Thapa

We present a framework of Training Free Graph Matching (TFGM) to boost the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) based graph matching, providing a fast promising solution without training (training-free). TFGM provides four widely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhiyuan Liu , Yixin Cao , Fuli Feng , Xiang Wang , Jie Tang , Kenji Kawaguchi , Tat-Seng Chua

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is essential in transferring dark knowledge from a large teacher to a small student network, such that the student can be much more efficient than the teacher but with comparable accuracy. Existing KD methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Junjie Zhou , Ke Zhu , Jianxin Wu

In this work we propose a novel end-to-end multi-stage Knowledge Graph (KG) generation system from textual inputs, separating the overall process into two stages. The graph nodes are generated first using pretrained language model, followed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Igor Melnyk , Pierre Dognin , Payel Das

High storage and computational costs obstruct deep neural networks to be deployed on resource-constrained devices. Knowledge distillation aims to train a compact student network by transferring knowledge from a larger pre-trained teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Changrui Chen , Zihe Dong

Knowledge distillation transfers knowledge from large teacher models to smaller students for efficient inference. While existing methods primarily focus on distillation strategies, they often overlook the importance of enhancing teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xin Zhang , Jianyang Xu , Hao Peng , Dongjing Wang , Jingyuan Zheng , Yu Li , Yuyu Yin , Hongbo Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) can transfer the reasoning abilities of large models to smaller ones, which can reduce the costs to generate Chain-of-Thoughts for reasoning tasks. KD methods typically ask the student to mimic the teacher's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minsang Kim , Seung Jun Baek

In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation (KD) strategy for object detection and propose an effective framework applicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous student-teacher pairs. The conventional feature imitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Lewei Yao , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Tong Zhang

Although graph neural networks (GNNs) have made great progress recently on learning from graph-structured data in practice, their theoretical guarantee on generalizability remains elusive in the literature. In this paper, we provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinjun Xiong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been demonstrated to be powerful in modeling graph-structured data. However, training GNNs usually requires abundant task-specific labeled data, which is often arduously expensive to obtain. One effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ziniu Hu , Yuxiao Dong , Kuansan Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun