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Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) conducts knowledge distillation via eliminating the dependence of original training data, and has recently achieved impressive results in accelerating pre-trained language models. At the heart of DFKD…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang , Gongfan Fang , Yongliang Shen , Weiming Lu

Prompt learning has emerged as a valuable technique in enhancing vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP for downstream tasks in specific domains. Existing work mainly focuses on designing various learning forms of prompts, neglecting…

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Data-free knowledge distillation~(DFKD) is an effective manner to solve model compression and transmission restrictions while retaining privacy protection, which has attracted extensive attention in recent years. Currently, the majority of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Renrong Shao , Wei Zhang , Jun wang

Recently Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) has garnered attention and can transfer knowledge from a teacher neural network to a student neural network without requiring any access to training data. Although diffusion models are adept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Xiaohua Qi , Renda Li , Long Peng , Qiang Ling , Jun Yu , Ziyi Chen , Peng Chang , Mei Han , Jing Xiao

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of model compression, substantially reducing the dependency on the original training data. Nonetheless, conventional DFKD methods that employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Muquan Li , Dongyang Zhang , Tao He , Xiurui Xie , Yuan-Fang Li , Ke Qin

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) is a promising approach for addressing issues related to model compression, security privacy, and transmission restrictions. Although the existing methods exploiting DFKD have achieved inspiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Renrong Shao , Wei Zhang , Jianhua Yin , Jun Wang

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

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) plays a vital role in compressing the model when original training data is unavailable. Previous works for DFKD in NLP mainly focus on distilling encoder-only structures like BERT on classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zheyuan Bai , Xinduo Liu , Hailin Hu , Tianyu Guo , Qinghua Zhang , Yunhe Wang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate remarkable zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks, but fall short of the performance of supervised methods in generalizing to downstream tasks with limited data. Prompt learning is emerging as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Marco Mistretta , Alberto Baldrati , Marco Bertini , Andrew D. Bagdanov

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 (KD) has been applied to various tasks successfully, and mainstream methods typically boost the student model via spatial imitation losses. However, the consecutive downsamplings induced in the spatial domain of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuan Zhang , Tao Huang , Jiaming Liu , Tao Jiang , Kuan Cheng , Shanghang Zhang

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) enables the knowledge transfer from the given pre-trained teacher network to the target student model without access to the real training data. Existing DFKD methods focus primarily on improving image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zherui Zhang , Changwei Wang , Rongtao Xu , Wenhao Xu , Shibiao Xu , Yu Zhang , Li Guo

The recent large-scale vision-language pre-training (VLP) of dual-stream architectures (e.g., CLIP) with a tremendous amount of image-text pair data, has shown its superiority on various multimodal alignment tasks. Despite its success, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Wenliang Dai , Lu Hou , Lifeng Shang , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Pascale Fung

Foundation models deliver strong perception but are often too computationally heavy to deploy, and adapting them typically requires costly annotations. We introduce a semi-supervised knowledge distillation (SSKD) framework that compresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Pardis Taghavi , Tian Liu , Renjie Li , Reza Langari , Zhengzhong Tu

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

Image-text contrastive models like CLIP have wide applications in zero-shot classification, image-text retrieval, and transfer learning. However, they often struggle on compositional visio-linguistic tasks (e.g., attribute-binding or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Samyadeep Basu , Shell Xu Hu , Maziar Sanjabi , Daniela Massiceti , Soheil Feizi

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) is a widely-used strategy for Knowledge Distillation (KD) whose training data is not available. It trains a lightweight student model with the aid of a large pretrained teacher model without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Jingru Li , Sheng Zhou , Liangcheng Li , Haishuai Wang , Zhi Yu , Jiajun Bu

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) is a promising task to train high-performance small models to enhance actual deployment without relying on the original training data. Existing methods commonly avoid relying on private data by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yuzheng Wang , Dingkang Yang , Zhaoyu Chen , Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Wenqiang Zhang , Lihua Zhang , Lizhe Qi

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) aims to distill pretrained knowledge to a student model with the help of a generator without using original data. In such data-free scenarios, achieving stable performance of DFKD is essential due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Hyunjune Shin , Dong-Wan Choi

We present Distill CLIP (DCLIP), a fine-tuned variant of the CLIP model that enhances multimodal image-text retrieval while preserving the original model's strong zero-shot classification capabilities. CLIP models are typically constrained…

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