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Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective method for model compression and transferring knowledge between models. However, its effect on model's robustness against spurious correlations that degrade performance on out-of-distribution data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jiali Cheng , Chirag Agarwal , Hadi Amiri

Knowledge distillation is widely used as a means of improving the performance of a relatively simple student model using the predictions from a complex teacher model. Several works have shown that distillation significantly boosts the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Michal Lukasik , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Aditya Krishna Menon , Sanjiv Kumar

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Knowledge distillation is considered a compression mechanism when judged on the resulting student's accuracy and loss, yet its functional impact is poorly understood. We quantify the compression capacity of knowledge distillation and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Israel Mason-Williams , Gabryel Mason-Williams , Helen Yannakoudakis

Knowledge distillation is a widely applicable technique for training a student neural network under the guidance of a trained teacher network. For example, in neural network compression, a high-capacity teacher is distilled to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Frederick Tung , Greg Mori

Knowledge distillation is a potential solution for model compression. The idea is to make a small student network imitate the target of a large teacher network, then the student network can be competitive to the teacher one. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chong Wang , Xipeng Lan , Yangang Zhang

Knowledge distillation aims to transfer useful information from a teacher network to a student network, with the primary goal of improving the student's performance for the task at hand. Over the years, there has a been a deluge of novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Utkarsh Ojha , Yuheng Li , Anirudh Sundara Rajan , Yingyu Liang , Yong Jae Lee

Deep neural networks can capture the intricate interaction history information between queries and documents, because of their many complicated nonlinear units, allowing them to provide correct search recommendations. However, service…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Zhitao Zhu , Shijing Si , Jianzong Wang , Yaodong Yang , Jing Xiao

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 is a method of transferring the knowledge from a complex deep neural network (DNN) to a smaller and faster DNN, while preserving its accuracy. Recent variants of knowledge distillation include teaching assistant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Minghong Gao

Knowledge distillation is a technique for improving the performance of a simple "student" model by replacing its one-hot training labels with a distribution over labels obtained from a complex "teacher" model. While this simple approach has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Aditya Krishna Menon , Ankit Singh Rawat , Sashank J. Reddi , Seungyeon Kim , Sanjiv Kumar

Deep models are susceptible to learning spurious correlations, even during the post-processing. We take a closer look at the knowledge distillation -- a popular post-processing technique for model compression -- and find that distilling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jiwoon Lee , Jaeho Lee

The concept of knowledge distillation (KD) describes the training of a student model from a teacher model and is a widely adopted technique in deep learning. However, it is still not clear how and why distillation works. Previous studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Giulia Lanzillotta , Felix Sarnthein , Gil Kur , Thomas Hofmann , Bobby He

Knowledge distillation is an effective approach to leverage a well-trained network or an ensemble of them, named as the teacher, to guide the training of a student network. The outputs from the teacher network are used as soft labels for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Helong Zhou , Liangchen Song , Jiajie Chen , Ye Zhou , Guoli Wang , Junsong Yuan , Qian Zhang

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for training a small student network to emulate a larger teacher model, such as an ensemble of networks. We show that while knowledge distillation can improve student generalization, it does not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Samuel Stanton , Pavel Izmailov , Polina Kirichenko , Alexander A. Alemi , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model to enhance its performance. Existing methods often assume that the student model is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhua Zhang , Yi Gao , Ruyu Liu , Xu Cheng , Houxiang Zhang , Shengyong Chen

Knowledge distillation, which involves extracting the "dark knowledge" from a teacher network to guide the learning of a student network, has emerged as an important technique for model compression and transfer learning. Unlike previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Guodong Xu , Ziwei Liu , Xiaoxiao Li , Chen Change Loy

Knowledge distillation has been used to transfer knowledge learned by a sophisticated model (teacher) to a simpler model (student). This technique is widely used to compress model complexity. However, in most applications the compressed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Hadi Pouransari , Mojan Javaheripi , Vinay Sharma , Oncel Tuzel

Knowledge distillation involves transferring the predictive capabilities of large, high-performing AI models (teachers) to smaller models (students) that can operate in environments with limited computing power. In this paper, we address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Pattarawat Chormai , Ali Hashemi , Klaus-Robert Müller , Grégoire Montavon

Knowledge distillation, i.e., one classifier being trained on the outputs of another classifier, is an empirically very successful technique for knowledge transfer between classifiers. It has even been observed that classifiers learn much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Mary Phuong , Christoph H. Lampert
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