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Knowledge Distillation is a technique which aims to utilize dark knowledge to compress and transfer information from a vast, well-trained neural network (teacher model) to a smaller, less capable neural network (student model) with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Fahad Rahman Amik , Ahnaf Ismat Tasin , Silvia Ahmed , M. M. Lutfe Elahi , Nabeel Mohammed

Knowledge distillation has become an important approach to obtain a compact yet effective model. To achieve this goal, a small student model is trained to exploit the knowledge of a large well-trained teacher model. However, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Zhiqiang Liu , Chengkai Huang , Yanxia Liu

The advancement of knowledge distillation has played a crucial role in enabling the transfer of knowledge from larger teacher models to smaller and more efficient student models, and is particularly beneficial for online and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Wanli Ma , Oktay Karakus , Paul L. Rosin

Knowledge distillation usually transfers the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher network to a compact student network, which follows the classical teacher-teaching-student paradigm. Based on this paradigm, previous methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Zheng Li , Xiang Li , Lingfeng Yang , Jian Yang , Zhigeng Pan

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

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

In this paper, we propose an intra-set and inter-set recursive fusion framework with time-frequency calibrated knowledge distillation (I$^2$SRF-TFCKD) for SE. Different from previous distillation strategies for SE, the proposed framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiaming Cheng , Ruiyu Liang , Ye Ni , Chao Xu , Jing Li , Wei Zhou , Rui Liu , Björn W. Schuller , Xiaoshuai Hao

We propose Cross-Attention-based Non-local Knowledge Distillation (CanKD), a novel feature-based knowledge distillation framework that leverages cross-attention mechanisms to enhance the knowledge transfer process. Unlike traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Shizhe Sun , Wataru Ohyama

Existing knowledge distillation methods mostly focus on distillation of teacher's prediction and intermediate activation. However, the structured representation, which arguably is one of the most critical ingredients of deep models, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jing Yang , Xiatian Zhu , Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Knowledge distillation is considered as a training and compression strategy in which two neural networks, namely a teacher and a student, are coupled together during training. The teacher network is supposed to be a trustworthy predictor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Peyman Passban , Yimeng Wu , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Qun Liu

Despite the success of Deep Learning (DL), the deployment of modern DL models requiring large computational power poses a significant problem for resource-constrained systems. This necessitates building compact networks that reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Akshay Kulkarni , Navid Panchi , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Shital Chiddarwar

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses neural networks by learning a small network (student) via transferring knowledge from a pre-trained large network (teacher). Many endeavours have been devoted to the image domain, while few works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ping Li , Chenhao Ping , Wenxiao Wang , Mingli Song

Knowledge distillation which learns a lightweight student model by distilling knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model is an attractive approach for learning compact deep neural networks (DNNs). Recent works further improve student network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Cuong Pham , Tuan Hoang , Thanh-Toan Do

This paper studies the problem of pre-training for small models, which is essential for many mobile devices. Current state-of-the-art methods on this problem transfer the representational knowledge of a large network (as a Teacher) into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingsheng Li , Lin Zhang , Mingzhen Zhu , Zilong Huang , Gang Yu , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

Deep pre-training and fine-tuning models (such as BERT and OpenAI GPT) have demonstrated excellent results in question answering areas. However, due to the sheer amount of model parameters, the inference speed of these models is very slow.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Ze Yang , Linjun Shou , Ming Gong , Wutao Lin , Daxin Jiang

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for model compression, enabling the transfer of knowledge from large teacher networks to compact student models. However, traditional knowledge distillation methods treat all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Aakash Gore , Anoushka Dey , Aryan Mishra

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

With the growth of computing power neural machine translation (NMT) models also grow accordingly and become better. However, they also become harder to deploy on edge devices due to memory constraints. To cope with this problem, a common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Yimeng Wu , Peyman Passban , Mehdi Rezagholizade , Qun Liu

Knowledge Distillation refers to a class of methods that transfers the knowledge from a teacher network to a student network. In this paper, we propose Sparse Representation Matching (SRM), a method to transfer intermediate knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Dat Thanh Tran , Moncef Gabbouj , Alexandros Iosifidis

It is challenging to perform lifelong language learning (LLL) on a stream of different tasks without any performance degradation comparing to the multi-task counterparts. To address this issue, we present Lifelong Language Knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yung-Sung Chuang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Existing knowledge distillation methods typically work by imparting the knowledge of output logits or intermediate feature maps from the teacher network to the student network, which is very successful in multi-class single-label learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Penghui Yang , Ming-Kun Xie , Chen-Chen Zong , Lei Feng , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Sheng-Jun Huang