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Knowledge distillation is a powerful method for model compression, enabling the efficient deployment of complex deep learning models (teachers), including large language models. However, its underlying statistical mechanisms remain unclear,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-28 Luyang Fang , Yongkai Chen , Jiazhang Cai , Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong

Knowledge distillation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. In this process, we typically have multiple types of knowledge extracted from the teacher model. The problem is to make full use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chenglong Wang , Yi Lu , Yongyu Mu , Yimin Hu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Researchers have long tried to minimize training costs in deep learning while maintaining strong generalization across diverse datasets. Emerging research on dataset distillation aims to reduce training costs by creating a small synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Ehsan Amjadian , Lucy Z. Liu , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Knowledge distillation (KD) requires sufficient data to transfer knowledge from large-scale teacher models to small-scale student models. Therefore, data augmentation has been widely used to mitigate the shortage of data under specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Ziqi Wang , Chi Han , Wenxuan Bao , Heng Ji

Several recent studies have elucidated why knowledge distillation (KD) improves model performance. However, few have researched the other advantages of KD in addition to its improving model performance. In this study, we have attempted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Hyeongrok Han , Siwon Kim , Hyun-Soo Choi , Sungroh Yoon

Knowledge distillation deals with the problem of training a smaller model (Student) from a high capacity source model (Teacher) so as to retain most of its performance. Existing approaches use either the training data or meta-data extracted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Vaisakh Shaj , R. Venkatesh Babu , Anirban Chakraborty

Knowledge Distillation is a commonly used Deep Neural Network (DNN) compression method, which often maintains overall generalization performance. However, we show that even for balanced image classification datasets, such as CIFAR-100, Tiny…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Aida Mohammadshahi , Yani Ioannou

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been actively studied for image classification tasks in deep learning, aiming to improve the performance of a student based on the knowledge from a teacher. However, applying KD in image regression with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Zuheng Xu , Z. Jane Wang , William J. Welch

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have improved NLP tasks significantly, but training and maintaining such networks could be costly. Model compression techniques, such as, knowledge distillation (KD), have been proposed to address the issue;…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Manas Mohanty , Tanya Roosta , Peyman Passban

Knowledge Distillation (KD) uses the teacher's prediction logits as soft labels to guide the student, while self-KD does not need a real teacher to require the soft labels. This work unifies the formulations of the two tasks by decomposing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhendong Yang , Ailing Zeng , Zhe Li , Tianke Zhang , Chun Yuan , Yu Li

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the medical field, the need for its explainability has grown. In medical image analysis, a high degree of transparency and model interpretability can help clinicians…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuchen Jiang , Xinyuan Zhao , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad

Knowledge distillation (KD) has received much attention due to its success in compressing networks to allow for their deployment in resource-constrained systems. While the problem of adversarial robustness has been studied before in the KD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Tom A. Lamb , Rudy Brunel , Krishnamurthy DJ Dvijotham , M. Pawan Kumar , Philip H. S. Torr , Francisco Eiras

Knowledge distillation (KD) involves transferring knowledge from a pre-trained heavy teacher model to a lighter student model, thereby reducing the inference cost while maintaining comparable effectiveness. Prior KD techniques typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jhe-Hao Lin , Yi Yao , Chan-Feng Hsu , Hongxia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful technique for transferring knowledge between neural network models, where a pre-trained teacher model is used to facilitate the training of the target student model. However, the availability of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xucong Wang , Pengchao Han , Lei Guo

Knowledge distillation is a popular machine learning technique that aims to transfer knowledge from a large 'teacher' network to a smaller 'student' network and improve the student's performance by training it to emulate the teacher. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Sushil Thapa

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for compressing a teacher model to a smaller student model, reducing its inference cost and memory footprint while preserving model capabilities. However, current KD methods for auto-regressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jongwoo Ko , Sungnyun Kim , Tianyi Chen , Se-Young Yun

Knowledge distillation (KD), known for its ability to transfer knowledge from a cumbersome network (teacher) to a lightweight one (student) without altering the architecture, has been garnering increasing attention. Two primary categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Yaomin Huang , Zaomin Yan , Chaomin Shen , Faming Fang , Guixu Zhang

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) methods can transfer knowledge of a parameter-heavy teacher model to a light-weight student model. The status quo for feature KD methods is to utilize loss functions based on logits (i.e., pre-softmax class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Nicholas Cooper , Lijun Chen , Sailesh Dwivedy , Danna Gurari

In the past few years, transformer-based pre-trained language models have achieved astounding success in both industry and academia. However, the large model size and high run-time latency are serious impediments to applying them in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chengqiang Lu , Jianwei Zhang , Yunfei Chu , Zhengyu Chen , Jingren Zhou , Fei Wu , Haiqing Chen , Hongxia Yang