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Knowledge distillation is a critical technique to transfer knowledge between models, typically from a large model (the teacher) to a more fine-grained one (the student). The objective function of knowledge distillation is typically the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhaohui Yan , Zixia Jia , Nguyen Bach , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

It is currently difficult to distill discrete diffusion models. In contrast, continuous diffusion literature has many distillation approaches methods that can reduce sampling steps to a handful. Our method, Discrete Moment Matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Emiel Hoogeboom , David Ruhe , Jonathan Heek , Thomas Mensink , Tim Salimans

Background: Image classification can be considered one of the key pillars of medical image analysis. Deep learning (DL) faces challenges that prevent its practical applications despite the remarkable improvement in medical image…

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Existing unsupervised keypoint detection methods apply artificial deformations to images such as masking a significant portion of images and using reconstruction of original image as a learning objective to detect keypoints. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Aman Anand , Elyas Rashno , Amir Eskandari , Farhana Zulkernine

Consistency distillation methods have demonstrated significant success in accelerating generative tasks of diffusion models. However, since previous consistency distillation methods use simple and straightforward strategies in selecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Cunzheng Wang , Ziyuan Guo , Yuxuan Duan , Huaxia Li , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Knowledge distillation, the technique of transferring knowledge from large, complex models to smaller ones, marks a pivotal step towards efficient AI deployment. Distilling Step-by-Step~(DSS), a novel method utilizing chain-of-thought~(CoT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xin Chen , Hanxian Huang , Yanjun Gao , Yi Wang , Jishen Zhao , Ke Ding

Current state-of-the-art object detectors are at the expense of high computational costs and are hard to deploy to low-end devices. Knowledge distillation, which aims at training a smaller student network by transferring knowledge from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ruoyu Sun , Fuhui Tang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Substantial efforts have been devoted to alleviating the impact of the long-tailed class distribution in federated learning. In this work, we observe an interesting phenomenon that certain weak classes consistently exist even for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Xiaoyu Gan , Jingbo Jiang , Jingyang Zhu , Xiaomeng Wang , Xizi Chen , Chi-Ying Tsui

Knowledge distillation is a strategy of training a student network with guide of the soft output from a teacher network. It has been a successful method of model compression and knowledge transfer. However, currently knowledge distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Guangda Ji , Zhanxing Zhu

In this paper, we formulate the knowledge distillation (KD) as a conditional generative problem and propose the \textit{Generative Distribution Distillation (GenDD)} framework. A naive \textit{GenDD} baseline encounters two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jiequan Cui , Beier Zhu , Qingshan Xu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengguang Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Bei Yu , Hanwang Zhang , Richang Hong

Knowledge distillation is a popular approach for enhancing the performance of ''student'' models, with lower representational capacity, by taking advantage of more powerful ''teacher'' models. Despite its apparent simplicity and widespread…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mher Safaryan , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

In the context of label-efficient learning on video data, the distillation method and the structural design of the teacher-student architecture have a significant impact on knowledge distillation. However, the relationship between these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Chao Wang , Zheng Tang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher network to strengthen a smaller student. Existing methods focus on excavating the knowledge hints and transferring the whole knowledge to the student. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chenxin Li , Mingbao Lin , Zhiyuan Ding , Nie Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Liujuan Cao

Domain generalization is critical in computational pathology (CPath) due to inherent domain shifts caused by variations in staining protocols, scanner devices, and imaging settings across clinical centers. Vision-language models (VLMs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Amir Mohammad Ezzati , Alireza Malekhosseini , Armin Khosravi , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Distillation is an effective knowledge-transfer technique that uses predicted distributions of a powerful teacher model as soft targets to train a less-parameterized student model. A pre-trained high capacity teacher, however, is not always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

The knowledge distillation uses a high-performance teacher network to guide the student network. However, the performance gap between the teacher and student networks can affect the student's training. This paper proposes a novel knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Songling Zhu , Ronghua Shang , Bo Yuan , Weitong Zhang , Yangyang Li , Licheng Jiao

Non-autoregressive machine translation (NAT) systems predict a sequence of output tokens in parallel, achieving substantial improvements in generation speed compared to autoregressive models. Existing NAT models usually rely on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Chunting Zhou , Graham Neubig , Jiatao Gu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique to derive optimal performance from a small student network (SN) by distilling knowledge of a large teacher network (TN) and transferring the distilled knowledge to the small SN. Since a role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

Multi-modality medical imaging is crucial in clinical treatment as it can provide complementary information for medical image segmentation. However, collecting multi-modal data in clinical is difficult due to the limitation of the scan time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shuai Wang , Zipei Yan , Daoan Zhang , Haining Wei , Zhongsen Li , Rui Li

We propose the task of knowledge distillation detection, which aims to determine whether a student model has been distilled from a given teacher, under a practical setting where only the student's weights and the teacher's API are…

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