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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruiqi Wang , Zezhou Yang , Cuiyun Gao , Xin Xia , Qing Liao

Knowledge distillation is a potential solution for model compression. The idea is to make a small student network imitate the target of a large teacher network, then the student network can be competitive to the teacher one. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chong Wang , Xipeng Lan , Yangang Zhang

Model compression is a critical area of research in deep learning, in particular in vision, driven by the need to lighten models memory or computational footprints. While numerous methods for model compression have been proposed, most focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jeremy Morlier , Mathieu Leonardon , Vincent Gripon

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 emerged as a pivotal technique for transferring knowledge from stronger large language models (LLMs) to smaller, more efficient models. However, traditional distillation approaches face challenges related to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ruihan Jin , Pengpeng Shao , Zhengqi Wen , Jinyang Wu , Mingkuan Feng , Shuo Yang , Chu Yuan Zhang , Jianhua Tao

The concept of compressing deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is essential to use limited computation, power, and memory resources on embedded devices. However, existing methods achieve this objective at the cost of a drop in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Waqar Ahmed , Andrea Zunino , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Unsupervised deep learning techniques are widely used to identify anomalous behaviour. The performance of such methods is a product of the amount of training data and the model size. However, the size is often a limiting factor for the…

Deep learning models for image compression often face practical limitations in hardware-constrained applications. Although these models achieve high-quality reconstructions, they are typically complex, heavyweight, and require substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Caroline Mazini Rodrigues , Nicolas Keriven , Thomas Maugey

Dataset distillation has emerged as a strategy to overcome the hurdles associated with large datasets by learning a compact set of synthetic data that retains essential information from the original dataset. While distilled data can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 William Yang , Ye Zhu , Zhiwei Deng , Olga Russakovsky

We introduce the problem of continual distillation learning (CDL) in order to use knowledge distillation (KD) to improve prompt-based continual learning (CL) models. The CDL problem is valuable to study since the use of a larger vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Qifan Zhang , Yunhui Guo , Yu Xiang

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable performance for artificial intelligence tasks. The success behind intelligent systems often relies on large-scale models with high computational complexity and storage costs. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Chuanguang Yang , Xinqiang Yu , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Despite the popularity and efficacy of knowledge distillation, there is limited understanding of why it helps. In order to study the generalization behavior of a distilled student, we propose a new theoretical framework that leverages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Hrayr Harutyunyan , Ankit Singh Rawat , Aditya Krishna Menon , Seungyeon Kim , Sanjiv Kumar

Knowledge distillation is considered a compression mechanism when judged on the resulting student's accuracy and loss, yet its functional impact is poorly understood. We quantify the compression capacity of knowledge distillation and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Israel Mason-Williams , Gabryel Mason-Williams , Helen Yannakoudakis

Deep learning networks have achieved state-of-the-art accuracies on computer vision workloads like image classification and object detection. The performant systems, however, typically involve big models with numerous parameters. Once…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Asit Mishra , Debbie Marr

Knowledge distillation, i.e., one classifier being trained on the outputs of another classifier, is an empirically very successful technique for knowledge transfer between classifiers. It has even been observed that classifiers learn much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Mary Phuong , Christoph H. Lampert

Deep learning methods usually require a large amount of training data and lack interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge distillation and model interpretation framework for medical image classification that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

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

Recently, significant progress has been made in learned image and video compression. In particular the usage of Generative Adversarial Networks has lead to impressive results in the low bit rate regime. However, the model size remains an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Leonhard Helminger , Roberto Azevedo , Abdelaziz Djelouah , Markus Gross , Christopher Schroers

In this work, we consider transferring the structure information from large networks to compact ones for dense prediction tasks in computer vision. Previous knowledge distillation strategies used for dense prediction tasks often directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yifan Liu , Changyong Shun , Jingdong Wang , Chunhua Shen

Knowledge distillation, a well-known model compression technique, is an active research area in both computer vision and remote sensing communities. In this paper, we evaluate in a remote sensing context various off-the-shelf object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Hoàng-Ân Lê , Minh-Tan Pham