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Knowledge distillation (KD) aims at improving the performance of a compact student model by distilling the knowledge from a high-performing teacher model. In this paper, we present an adaptive KD approach, namely AdaDistill, for deep face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Fadi Boutros , Vitomir Štruc , Naser Damer

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

Although deep learning models owe their remarkable success to deep and complex architectures, this very complexity typically comes at the expense of real-time performance. To address this issue, a variety of model compression techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Seongmin Kim , Kwanho Kim , Minseung Kim , Kanghyun Jo

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge in a teacher-student framework, by providing the predictions of the teacher network to the student network in the training stage to help the student network generalize better. It can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a successful approach for deep neural network acceleration, with which a compact network (student) is trained by mimicking the softmax output of a pre-trained high-capacity network (teacher). In tradition, KD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zi Wang

Although the diffusion model has achieved remarkable performance in the field of image generation, its high inference delay hinders its wide application in edge devices with scarce computing resources. Therefore, many training-free sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the most potent ways for model compression. The key idea is to transfer the knowledge from a deep teacher model (T) to a shallower student (S). However, existing methods suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Chen Change Loy

The knowledge distillation uses a high-performance teacher network to guide the student network. However, the performance gap between the teacher and student networks can affect the student's training. This paper proposes a novel knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Songling Zhu , Ronghua Shang , Bo Yuan , Weitong Zhang , Yangyang Li , Licheng Jiao

Knowledge distillation (KD) exploits a large well-trained model (i.e., teacher) to train a small student model on the same dataset for the same task. Treating teacher features as knowledge, prevailing methods of knowledge distillation train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yuzhu Wang , Lechao Cheng , Manni Duan , Yongheng Wang , Zunlei Feng , Shu Kong

This work introduces a novel knowledge distillation framework for classification tasks where information on existing subclasses is available and taken into consideration. In classification tasks with a small number of classes or binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ahmad Sajedi , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Knowledge Distillation (KD) uses the teacher's prediction logits as soft labels to guide the student, while self-KD does not need a real teacher to require the soft labels. This work unifies the formulations of the two tasks by decomposing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhendong Yang , Ailing Zeng , Zhe Li , Tianke Zhang , Chun Yuan , Yu Li

Recently, large-scale pre-trained models have shown their advantages in many tasks. However, due to the huge computational complexity and storage requirements, it is challenging to apply the large-scale model to real scenes. A common…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Deng Li , Aming Wu , Yahong Han , Qi Tian

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

Most teacher-student frameworks based on knowledge distillation (KD) depend on a strong congruent constraint on instance level. However, they usually ignore the correlation between multiple instances, which is also valuable for knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Baoyun Peng , Xiao Jin , Jiaheng Liu , Shunfeng Zhou , Yichao Wu , Yu Liu , Dongsheng Li , Zhaoning Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful strategy for training deep neural networks (DNNs). Although it was originally proposed to train a more compact "student" model from a large "teacher" model, many recent efforts have focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Guanglong Sun , Hongwei Yan , Liyuan Wang , Qian Li , Bo Lei , Yi Zhong

Knowledge distillation (KD) has traditionally relied on a static teacher-student framework, where a large, well-trained teacher transfers knowledge to a single student model. However, these approaches often suffer from knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Md. Abdur Rahman , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Sami Azam , Asif Karim , Jemima Beissbarth , Amanda Leach

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher network to strengthen a smaller student. Existing methods focus on excavating the knowledge hints and transferring the whole knowledge to the student. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chenxin Li , Mingbao Lin , Zhiyuan Ding , Nie Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Liujuan Cao

Knowledge distillation conducts an effective model compression method while holding some limitations:(1) the feature based distillation methods only focus on distilling the feature map but are lack of transferring the relation of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Muzhou Yu , Sia Huat Tan , Kailu Wu , Runpei Dong , Linfeng Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent alternative to the traditional centralized learning approach. Generally speaking, FL is a decentralized approach that allows for collaborative training of Machine Learning (ML) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , S. Kawa Atapour , Jamshid Abouei , Arash Mohammadi

In this paper, we formulate the knowledge distillation (KD) as a conditional generative problem and propose the \textit{Generative Distribution Distillation (GenDD)} framework. A naive \textit{GenDD} baseline encounters two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jiequan Cui , Beier Zhu , Qingshan Xu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengguang Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Bei Yu , Hanwang Zhang , Richang Hong