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Beam training and prediction in real-world millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications systems are challenging due to rapidly time-varying channels and strong interference from surrounding objects. In this context, widely available sensors,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Mengyuan Ma , Isuri Welgamage , Ahmed Alkhateeb , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Markku Juntti , Nhan Thanh Nguyen

Recognizing novel sub-categories with scarce samples is an essential and challenging research topic in computer vision. Existing literature addresses this challenge by employing local-based representation approaches, which may not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Haiqi Liu , C. L. Philip Chen , Xinrong Gong , Tong Zhang

In this paper, we tackle a new problem: how to transfer knowledge from the pre-trained cumbersome yet well-performed CNN-based model to learn a compact Vision Transformer (ViT)-based model while maintaining its learning capacity? Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xu Zheng , Yunhao Luo , Pengyuan Zhou , Lin Wang

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

Recent improvements in convolutional neural network (CNN)-based single image super-resolution (SISR) methods rely heavily on fabricating network architectures, rather than finding a suitable training algorithm other than simply minimizing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Recent advances in automotive four-dimensional (4D) Radar have enabled access to raw 4D Radar Tensor (4DRT), offering richer spatial and Doppler information than conventional point clouds. While most existing methods rely on heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Seung-Hyun Song , Dong-Hee Paek , Minh-Quan Dao , Ezio Malis , Seung-Hyun Kong

Knowledge distillation (KD) has witnessed its powerful capability in learning compact models in object detection. Previous KD methods for object detection mostly focus on imitating deep features within the imitation regions instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhaohui Zheng , Rongguang Ye , Ping Wang , Dongwei Ren , Wangmeng Zuo , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

Most of recent attention-guided feature masking distillation methods perform knowledge transfer via global teacher attention maps without delving into fine-grained clues. Instead, performing distillation at finer granularity is conducive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhourui Zhang , Jun Li , Jiayan Li , Jianhua Xu

Knowledge distillation has become widely recognized for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact and more streamlined student network. Traditional knowledge distillation methods primarily follow a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Chaomin Shen , Yaomin Huang , Haokun Zhu , Jinsong Fan , Guixu Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has proven highly effective for compressing large models and enhancing the performance of smaller ones. However, its effectiveness diminishes in cross-modal scenarios, such as vision-to-language distillation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Junhong Liu , Yuan Zhang , Tao Huang , Wenchao Xu , Renyu Yang

Despite significant advancements of deep learning-based forgery detectors for distinguishing manipulated deepfake images, most detection approaches suffer from moderate to significant performance degradation with low-quality compressed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Binh M. Le , Simon S. Woo

Recent recommender systems have started to employ knowledge distillation, which is a model compression technique distilling knowledge from a cumbersome model (teacher) to a compact model (student), to reduce inference latency while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 SeongKu Kang , Junyoung Hwang , Wonbin Kweon , Hwanjo Yu

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

Although large foundation models pre-trained by self-supervised learning have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks including automatic speech recognition (ASR), knowledge distillation (KD) is often required in practice to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiaoyu Yang , Qiujia Li , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

Knowledge distillation (KD) methods can transfer knowledge of a parameter-heavy teacher model to a light-weight student model. The status quo for feature KD methods is to utilize loss functions based on logits (i.e., pre-softmax class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nicholas Cooper , Lijun Chen , Sailesh Dwivedy , Danna Gurari

Recently, CNN-based SISR has numerous parameters and high computational cost to achieve better performance, limiting its applicability to resource-constrained devices such as mobile. As one of the methods to make the network efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 HyeonCheol Moon , JinWoo Jeong , SungJei Kim

In many situations, we need to build and deploy separate models in related environments with different data qualities. For example, an environment with strong observation equipments (e.g., intensive care units) often provides high-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Shenda Hong , Cao Xiao , Trong Nghia Hoang , Tengfei Ma , Hongyan Li , Jimeng Sun

Knowledge Distillation (KD) refers to transferring knowledge from a large model to a smaller one, which is widely used to enhance model performance in machine learning. It tries to align embedding spaces generated from the teacher and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Weidong Shi , Guanghui Ren , Yunpeng Chen , Shuicheng Yan

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a common approach to compress a teacher model to reduce its inference cost and memory footprint, by training a smaller student model. However, in the context of autoregressive language models (LMs), we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Qihuang Zhong , Liang Ding , Li Shen , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Surface defect detection is one of the most essential processes for industrial quality inspection. Deep learning-based surface defect detection methods have shown great potential. However, the well-performed models usually require large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Chen Sun , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li , Yiping Gao