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It can be challenging to train multi-task neural networks that outperform or even match their single-task counterparts. To help address this, we propose using knowledge distillation where single-task models teach a multi-task model. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Kevin Clark , Minh-Thang Luong , Urvashi Khandelwal , Christopher D. Manning , Quoc V. Le

Knowledge distillation aims to transfer useful information from a teacher network to a student network, with the primary goal of improving the student's performance for the task at hand. Over the years, there has a been a deluge of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Utkarsh Ojha , Yuheng Li , Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Yingyu Liang , Yong Jae Lee

Knowledge distillation involves transferring the predictive capabilities of large, high-performing AI models (teachers) to smaller models (students) that can operate in environments with limited computing power. In this paper, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

This paper presents a method to interpret the success of knowledge distillation by quantifying and analyzing task-relevant and task-irrelevant visual concepts that are encoded in intermediate layers of a deep neural network (DNN). More…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Xu Cheng , Zhefan Rao , Yilan Chen , Quanshi Zhang

Benefiting from the sequence-level knowledge distillation, the Non-Autoregressive Transformer (NAT) achieves great success in neural machine translation tasks. However, existing knowledge distillation has side effects, such as propagating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Min Liu , Yu Bao , Chengqi Zhao , Shujian Huang

We address the problem of learning new classes for semantic segmentation models from few examples, which is challenging because of the following two reasons. Firstly, it is difficult to learn from limited novel data to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chengjia Jiang , Tao Wang , Sien Li , Jinyang Wang , Shirui Wang , Antonios Antoniou

Recent advancements in camera-based 3D object detection have introduced cross-modal knowledge distillation to bridge the performance gap with LiDAR 3D detectors, leveraging the precise geometric information in LiDAR point clouds. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sanmin Kim , Youngseok Kim , Sihwan Hwang , Hyeonjun Jeong , Dongsuk Kum

Real-world scenarios pose several challenges to deep learning based computer vision techniques despite their tremendous success in research. Deeper models provide better performance, but are challenging to deploy and knowledge distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ayush Bhardwaj , Sakshee Pimpale , Saurabh Kumar , Biplab Banerjee

An increasing number of datasets sharing similar domains for semantic segmentation have been published over the past few years. But despite the growing amount of overall data, it is still difficult to train bigger and better models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anton Backhaus , Thorsten Luettel , Mirko Maehlisch

Knowledge distillation often involves how to define and transfer knowledge from teacher to student effectively. Although recent self-supervised contrastive knowledge achieves the best performance, forcing the network to learn such knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

Obtaining annotations for 3D medical images is expensive and time-consuming, despite its importance for automating segmentation tasks. Although multi-task learning is considered an effective method for training segmentation models using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Junichiro Iwasawa , Yuichiro Hirano , Yohei Sugawara

Optimizing neural networks with noisy labels is a challenging task, especially if the label set contains real-world noise. Networks tend to generalize to reasonable patterns in the early training stages and overfit to specific details of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Timo Kaiser , Lukas Ehmann , Christoph Reinders , Bodo Rosenhahn

Recently, there have been significant improvements in the accuracy of CNN models for semantic segmentation. However, these models are often heavy and suffer from low inference speed, which limits their practical application. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Minglong Li , Lianlei Shan , Weiqiang Wang , Ke Lv , Bin Luo , Si-Bao Chen

Knowledge distillation is widely adopted in semantic segmentation to reduce the computation cost.The previous knowledge distillation methods for semantic segmentation focus on pixel-wise feature alignment and intra-class feature variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhengbo Zhang , Chunluan Zhou , Zhigang Tu

Knowledge distillation is a technique for improving the performance of a simple "student" model by replacing its one-hot training labels with a distribution over labels obtained from a complex "teacher" model. While this simple approach has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Aditya Krishna Menon , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank J. Reddi , Seungyeon Kim , Sanjiv Kumar

Lack of specialized data makes building a multi-domain neural machine translation tool challenging. Although emerging literature dealing with low resource languages starts to show promising results, most state-of-the-art models used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Idriss Mghabbar , Pirashanth Ratnamogan

Knowledge distillation becomes a de facto standard to improve the performance of small neural networks. Most of the previous works propose to regress the representational features from the teacher to the student in a one-to-one spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Gang Wang

Knowledge distillation is an effective method for training small and efficient deep learning models. However, the efficacy of a single method can degenerate when transferring to other tasks, modalities, or even other architectures. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

Fully supervised deep neural networks for segmentation usually require a massive amount of pixel-level labels which are manually expensive to create. In this work, we develop a multi-task learning method to relax this constraint. We regard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Rihuan Ke , Aurélie Bugeau , Nicolas Papadakis , Mark Kirkland , Peter Schuetz , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Recently, there has been an increased interest in the practical problem of learning multiple dense scene understanding tasks from partially annotated data, where each training sample is only labeled for a subset of the tasks. The missing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Hanrong Ye , Dan Xu