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Considering the fact that students have different abilities to understand the knowledge imparted by teachers, a multi-granularity distillation mechanism is proposed for transferring more understandable knowledge for student networks. A…

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The success of deep convolutional neural networks is partially attributed to the massive amount of annotated training data. However, in practice, medical data annotations are usually expensive and time-consuming to be obtained. Considering…

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The significance of mental health classification is paramount in contemporary society, where digital platforms serve as crucial sources for monitoring individuals' well-being. However, existing social media mental health datasets primarily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Rina Carines Cabral , Siwen Luo , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

Since the advent of knowledge distillation, much research has focused on how the soft labels generated by the teacher model can be utilized effectively. Existing studies points out that the implicit knowledge within soft labels originates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hua Yuan , Ning Xu , Xin Geng , Yong Rui

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for model compression, enabling the transfer of knowledge from large teacher networks to compact student models. However, traditional knowledge distillation methods treat all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Aakash Gore , Anoushka Dey , Aryan Mishra

This paper addresses the challenges of high computational cost and slow inference in deploying large language models. It proposes a distillation strategy guided by multiple teacher models. The method constructs several teacher models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiandong Meng , Yan Wu , Yexin Tian , Xin Hu , Tianze Kang , Junliang Du

Knowledge distillation methods have recently shown to be a promising direction to speedup the synthesis of large-scale diffusion models by requiring only a few inference steps. While several powerful distillation methods were recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Nikita Starodubcev , Artem Fedorov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for training a small student network to emulate a larger teacher model, such as an ensemble of networks. We show that while knowledge distillation can improve student generalization, it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Alexander A. Alemi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

The joint use of multiple imaging modalities for medical image segmentation has been widely studied in recent years. The fusion of information from different modalities has demonstrated to improve the segmentation accuracy, with respect to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Minhao Hu , Matthis Maillard , Ya Zhang , Tommaso Ciceri , Giammarco La Barbera , Isabelle Bloch , Pietro Gori

Knowledge Distillation refers to a class of methods that transfers the knowledge from a teacher network to a student network. In this paper, we propose Sparse Representation Matching (SRM), a method to transfer intermediate knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Dat Thanh Tran , Moncef Gabbouj , Alexandros Iosifidis

Knowledge distillation allows transferring knowledge from a pre-trained model to another. However, it suffers from limitations, and constraints related to the two models need to be architecturally similar. Knowledge distillation addresses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Pejman Khadivi , Nader Karimi , Roshanak Roshandel , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

Knowledge Distillation (KD) based methods adopt the one-way Knowledge Transfer (KT) scheme in which training a lower-capacity student network is guided by a pre-trained high-capacity teacher network. Recently, Deep Mutual Learning (DML)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Anbang Yao , Dawei Sun

Knowledge Distillation, as a model compression technique, has received great attention. The knowledge of a well-performed teacher is distilled to a student with a small architecture. The architecture of the small student is often chosen to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Neural dialogue models suffer from low-quality responses when interacted in practice, demonstrating difficulty in generalization beyond training data. Recently, knowledge distillation has been used to successfully regularize the student by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shaoxiong Feng , Xuancheng Ren , Kan Li , Xu Sun

Due to limitations in data quality, some essential visual tasks are difficult to perform independently. Introducing previously unavailable information to transfer informative dark knowledge has been a common way to solve such hard tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lingyu Si , Hongwei Dong , Wenwen Qiang , Junzhi Yu , Wenlong Zhai , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu , Fuchun Sun

Knowledge distillation is to transfer the knowledge from the data learned by the teacher network to the student network, so that the student has the advantage of less parameters and less calculations, and the accuracy is close to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Zaida Zhou , Chaoran Zhuge , Xinwei Guan , Wen Liu

Retrieval and ranking models are the backbone of many applications such as web search, open domain QA, or text-based recommender systems. The latency of neural ranking models at query time is largely dependent on the architecture and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Sebastian Hofstätter , Sophia Althammer , Michael Schröder , Mete Sertkan , Allan Hanbury

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted approach for compressing large neural networks by transferring knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. In the context of large language models, token level KD,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yihan Cao , Yanbin Kang , Zhengming Xing , Ruijie Jiang

In the surveillance and defense domain, multi-target detection and classification (MTD) is considered essential yet challenging due to heterogeneous inputs from diverse data sources and the computational complexity of algorithms designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ngoc Tuyen Do , Tri Nhu Do

In this paper, we present a thorough evaluation of the efficacy of knowledge distillation and its dependence on student and teacher architectures. Starting with the observation that more accurate teachers often don't make good teachers, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jang Hyun Cho , Bharath Hariharan