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Knowledge distillation (KD), a technique widely employed in computer vision, has emerged as a de facto standard for improving the performance of small neural networks. However, prevailing KD-based approaches in video tasks primarily focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Guiqin Wang , Peng Zhao , Yanjiang Shi , Cong Zhao , Shusen Yang

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) is a novel task that aims to train high-performance student models using only the pre-trained teacher network without original training data. Most of the existing DFKD methods rely heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Jie Zhang , Dingkang Yang , Zuhao Ge , Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Yunquan Sun , Wenqiang Zhang , Lizhe Qi

Knowledge distillation has been applied to image classification successfully. However, object detection is much more sophisticated and most knowledge distillation methods have failed on it. In this paper, we point out that in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Zhendong Yang , Zhe Li , Xiaohu Jiang , Yuan Gong , Zehuan Yuan , Danpei Zhao , Chun Yuan

Most current federated learning frameworks are modeled as static processes, ignoring the dynamic characteristics of the learning system. Under the limited communication budget of the central server, the flexible model architecture of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiting Zheng , Bohan Lin , Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

In the last decade, many deep learning models have been well trained and made a great success in various fields of machine intelligence, especially for computer vision and natural language processing. To better leverage the potential of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang , Jianyong Wang

Knowledge distillation is a mainstream algorithm in model compression by transferring knowledge from the larger model (teacher) to the smaller model (student) to improve the performance of student. Despite many efforts, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muhe Ding , Jianlong Wu , Xue Dong , Xiaojie Li , Pengda Qin , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

Dataset distillation (DD) compresses a large training set into a small synthetic set, reducing storage and training cost, and has shown strong results on general benchmarks. Decoupled DD further improves efficiency by splitting the pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Hongxu Ma , Guang Li , Shijie Wang , Dongzhan Zhou , Baoli Sun , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama , Zhihui Wang

Knowledge Distillation is crucial for optimizing face recognition models for deployment in computationally limited settings, such as edge devices. Traditional KD methods, such as Raw L2 Feature Distillation or Feature Consistency loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Durgesh Mishra , Rishabh Uikey

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has made remarkable progress in the last few years and become a popular paradigm for model compression and knowledge transfer. However, almost all existing KD algorithms are data-driven, i.e., relying on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Gongfan Fang , Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Xinchao Wang , Da Chen , Mingli Song

Transformers are successfully applied to computer vision due to their powerful modeling capacity with self-attention. However, the excellent performance of transformers heavily depends on enormous training images. Thus, a data-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Xianing Chen , Qiong Cao , Yujie Zhong , Jing Zhang , Shenghua Gao , Dacheng Tao

Deep learning-based speech enhancement (SE) models have recently outperformed traditional techniques, yet their deployment on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high computational and memory demands. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xihao Yuan , Siqi Liu , Hanting Chen , Lu Zhou , Jian Li , Jie Hu

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) transfers knowledge from a teacher to a student without access to the real in-distribution (ID) data. While existing methods perform well on small-scale images, they suffer from mode collapse when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xuewan He , Jielei Wang , Zihan Cheng , Yuchen Su , Shiyue Huang , Guoming Lu

Knowledge distillation has been widely used to produce portable and efficient neural networks which can be well applied on edge devices for computer vision tasks. However, almost all top-performing knowledge distillation methods need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Haoran Zhao , Xin Sun , Junyu Dong , Hui Yu , Huiyu Zhou

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a valuable yet challenging approach that enhances a compact student network by learning from a high-performance but cumbersome teacher model. However, previous KD methods for image restoration overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yunshuai Zhou , Junbo Qiao , Jincheng Liao , Wei Li , Simiao Li , Jiao Xie , Yunhang Shen , Jie Hu , Shaohui Lin

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely applied in semantic segmentation to compress large models, but conventional approaches primarily preserve in-domain accuracy while neglecting out-of-domain generalization, which is essential under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chonghua Lv , Dong Zhao , Shuang Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Large pre-trained transformer-based language models have achieved impressive results on a wide range of NLP tasks. In the past few years, Knowledge Distillation(KD) has become a popular paradigm to compress a computationally expensive model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Xinyin Ma , Yongliang Shen , Gongfan Fang , Chen Chen , Chenghao Jia , Weiming Lu

High-quality annotation of fine-grained visual categories demands great expert knowledge, which is taxing and time consuming. Alternatively, learning fine-grained visual representation from enormous unlabeled images (e.g., species, brands)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Qi Bi , Wei Ji , Jingjun Yi , Haolan Zhan , Gui-Song Xia

Deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in object detection, yet their complexity and computational intensity pose a barrier to deploying them in real-world applications (e.g., self-driving perception). Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

Camera-based temporal 3D object detection has shown impressive results in autonomous driving, with offline models improving accuracy by using future frames. Knowledge distillation (KD) can be an appealing framework for transferring rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haowen Zheng , Hu Zhu , Lu Deng , Weihao Gu , Yang Yang , Yanyan Liang