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Many existing studies on knowledge distillation have focused on methods in which a student model mimics a teacher model well. Simply imitating the teacher's knowledge, however, is not sufficient for the student to surpass that of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jihyeon Seo , Kyusam Oh , Chanho Min , Yongkeun Yun , Sungwoo Cho

Enhancing small language models for real-life application deployment is a significant challenge facing the research community. Due to the difficulties and costs of using large language models, researchers are seeking ways to effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mohamad Ballout , Ulf Krumnack , Gunther Heidemann , Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

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

Improving patient outcomes depends on the prompt and accurate diagnosis of brain tumors, but manual MRI scan analysis is still time-consuming and unreliable. Although deep learning has shown promise, many of the models that are now in use…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Md Fahimul Kabir Chowdhury , Jannatul Ferdous

In this research, we propose an innovative method to boost Knowledge Distillation efficiency without the need for resource-heavy teacher models. Knowledge Distillation trains a smaller ``student'' model with guidance from a larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Divyang Doshi , Jung-Eun Kim

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality in women. Early detection and treatment are imperative for improving survival rates, which have steadily increased in recent years as a result of more sophisticated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Sulaiman Vesal , Nishant Ravikumar , AmirAbbas Davari , Stephan Ellmann , Andreas Maier

Deep learning models are prone to learning shortcut solutions to problems using spuriously correlated yet irrelevant features of their training data. In high-risk applications such as medical image analysis, this phenomenon may prevent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Christopher Boland , Sotirios Tsaftaris , Sonia Dahdouh

This thesis aims to investigate the feasibility of knowledge transfer between neural networks for medical image segmentation tasks, specifically focusing on the transfer from a larger multi-task "Teacher" network to a smaller "Student"…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Risab Biswas

Accurate skin disease classification is a critical yet challenging task due to high inter-class similarity, intra-class variability, and complex lesion textures. While deep learning-based computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Enam Ahmed Taufik , Abdullah Khondoker , Antara Firoz Parsa , Seraj Al Mahmud Mostafa

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods are often either too computationally expensive or not accurate enough due to the trade-off between model complexity and inference performance. In this paper, we propose a lightweight network that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Hualie Jiang , Xiyue Guo , Yuan Gao , Xiangyong Lu , Tin Lun Lam

We present an approach to ranking with dense representations that applies knowledge distillation to improve the recently proposed late-interaction ColBERT model. Specifically, we distill the knowledge from ColBERT's expressive MaxSim…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Jheng-Hong Yang , Jimmy Lin

Deep learning-based models are at the forefront of most driver observation benchmarks due to their remarkable accuracies but are also associated with high computational costs. This is challenging, as resources are often limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Calvin Tanama , Kunyu Peng , Zdravko Marinov , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Alina Roitberg

In recent years, knowledge distillation has been proved to be an effective solution for model compression. This approach can make lightweight student models acquire the knowledge extracted from cumbersome teacher models. However, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Xing Dai , Zeren Jiang , Zhao Wu , Yiping Bao , Zhicheng Wang , Si Liu , Erjin Zhou

Knowledge distillation in machine learning is the process of transferring knowledge from a large model called the teacher to a smaller model called the student. Knowledge distillation is one of the techniques to compress the large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Durga Prasad Ganta , Himel Das Gupta , Victor S. Sheng

Fast and accurate 3D hand reconstruction is essential for real-time applications in VR/AR, human-computer interaction, robotics, and healthcare. Most state-of-the-art methods rely on heavy models, limiting their use on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hunain Ahmed Jillani , Ahmed Tawfik Aboukhadra , Ahmed Elhayek , Jameel Malik , Nadia Robertini , Didier Stricker

To address the issues of limited samples, time-consuming feature design, and low accuracy in detection and classification of breast cancer pathological images, a breast cancer image classification model algorithm combining deep learning and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Weimin Wang , Yufeng Li , Xu Yan , Mingxuan Xiao , Min Gao

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful approach for compressing a large model into a smaller, more efficient model, particularly beneficial for latency-sensitive applications like recommender systems. However, current KD research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Nikhil Khani , Shuo Yang , Aniruddh Nath , Yang Liu , Pendo Abbo , Li Wei , Shawn Andrews , Maciej Kula , Jarrod Kahn , Zhe Zhao , Lichan Hong , Ed Chi

Skin cancer is also one of the most common and dangerous types of cancer in the world that requires timely and precise diagnosis. In this paper, a deep-learning architecture of the multi-class skin lesion classification on the HAM10000…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Md. Maksudul Haque , Rahnuma Akter , A S M Ahsanul Sarkar Akib , Abdul Hasib

Very low-resolution face recognition is challenging due to the serious loss of informative facial details in resolution degradation. In this paper, we propose a generative-discriminative representation distillation approach that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Junzheng Zhang , Weijia Guo , Bochao Liu , Ruixin Shi , Yong Li , Shiming Ge

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a widespread technique for compressing the knowledge of large models into more compact and efficient models. KD has proved to be highly effective in building well-performing low-complexity Acoustic Scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Tobias Morocutti , Florian Schmid , Khaled Koutini , Gerhard Widmer