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Knowledge distillation (KD) improves the performance of a low-complexity student model with the help of a more powerful teacher. The teacher in KD is a black-box model, imparting knowledge to the student only through its predictions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sayantan Chowdhury , Ben Liang , Ali Tizghadam , Ilijc Albanese

This study proposes a method for knowledge distillation (KD) of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) into smaller, more efficient, and accurate neural networks. We specifically target the challenge of deploying these models on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ehsan Latif , Luyang Fang , Ping Ma , Xiaoming Zhai

This paper explores sequence-level knowledge distillation (KD) of multilingual pre-trained encoder-decoder translation models. We argue that the teacher model's output distribution holds valuable insights for the student, beyond the…

Knowledge distillation~(KD) is an effective learning paradigm for improving the performance of lightweight student networks by utilizing additional supervision knowledge distilled from teacher networks. Most pioneering studies either learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Over the past year, the emergence of transfer learning with large-scale language models (LM) has led to dramatic performance improvements across a broad range of natural language understanding tasks. However, the size and memory footprint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , George Han , Celine Liang

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

Pre-trained language models (e.g., BERT) have achieved significant success in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, high storage and computational costs obstruct pre-trained language models to be effectively deployed on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Honghong Zhao , Ruifeng Xu , Min Yang , Yaohong Jin

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been considered as a key solution in model compression and acceleration in recent years. In KD, a small student model is generally trained from a large teacher model by minimizing the divergence between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Raed Alharbi , Minh N. Vu , My T. Thai

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a pivotal technique for neural network compression and performance enhancement. Most KD methods aim to transfer dark knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Niu , Yingchao Wang , Guohui Cai , Hanpo Hou

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve state-of-the-art performance on many translation benchmarks. As an active research field in NMT, knowledge distillation is widely applied to enhance the model's performance by transferring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Fusheng Wang , Jianhao Yan , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

Deep learning models, particularly recurrent neural networks and their variants, such as long short-term memory, have significantly advanced time series data analysis. These models capture complex, sequential patterns in time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Nilushika Udayangani , Kishor Nandakishor , Marimuthu Palaniswami

This paper studies the problem of pre-training for small models, which is essential for many mobile devices. Current state-of-the-art methods on this problem transfer the representational knowledge of a large network (as a Teacher) into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingsheng Li , Lin Zhang , Mingzhen Zhu , Zilong Huang , Gang Yu , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen

Incremental learning methods can learn new classes continually by distilling knowledge from the last model (as a teacher model) to the current model (as a student model) in the sequentially learning process. However, these methods cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Longhui Yu , Zhenyu Weng , Yuqing Wang , Yuesheng Zhu

Distilled self-supervised models have shown competitive performance and efficiency in recent years. However, there is a lack of experience in jointly distilling multiple self-supervised speech models. In our work, we performed Ensemble…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Kuan-Po Huang , Tzu-hsun Feng , Yu-Kuan Fu , Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Po-Chieh Yen , Wei-Cheng Tseng , Kai-Wei Chang , Hung-yi Lee

Knowledge distillation, a technique for model compression and performance enhancement, has gained significant traction in Neural Machine Translation (NMT). However, existing research primarily focuses on empirical applications, and there is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Jingxuan Wei , Linzhuang Sun , Xu Tan , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo

Recently, knowledge distillation (KD) has shown great success in BERT compression. Instead of only learning from the teacher's soft label as in conventional KD, researchers find that the rich information contained in the hidden layers of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Yuanxin Liu , Fandong Meng , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used in audio tasks, such as speaker verification (SV), by transferring knowledge from a well-trained large model (the teacher) to a smaller, more compact model (the student) for efficiency and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Wenhao Yang , Jianguo Wei , Wenhuan Lu , Xugang Lu , Lei Li

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

Deep and large pre-trained language models are the state-of-the-art for various natural language processing tasks. However, the huge size of these models could be a deterrent to use them in practice. Some recent and concurrent works use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Ahmed Awadallah