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We propose ClassroomKD, a novel multi-mentor knowledge distillation framework inspired by classroom environments to enhance knowledge transfer between the student and multiple mentors with different knowledge levels. Unlike traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shalini Sarode , Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan , Tahira Shehzadi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression method that entails training a compact student model to emulate the performance of a more complex teacher model. However, the architectural capacity gap between the two models limits the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Kuluhan Binici , Weiming Wu , Tulika Mitra

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework that aims to transfer meaningful information from a large teacher to a smaller student. Generally, KD often involves how to define and transfer knowledge. Previous KD methods often focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

Typical technique in knowledge distillation (KD) is regularizing the learning of a limited capacity model (student) by pushing its responses to match a powerful model's (teacher). Albeit useful especially in the penultimate layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ada Gorgun , Yeti Z. Gurbuz , A. Aydin Alatan

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a simple and successful method to transfer knowledge from a teacher to a student model solely based on functional activity. However, current KD has a few shortcomings: it has recently been shown that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Arne F. Nix , Max F. Burg , Fabian H. Sinz

Multi-teacher knowledge distillation (KD), a more effective technique than traditional single-teacher methods, transfers knowledge from expert teachers to a compact student model using logit or feature matching. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Amir M. Mansourian , Amir Mohammad Babaei , Shohreh Kasaei

State-of-the-art results in deep learning have been improving steadily, in good part due to the use of larger models. However, widespread use is constrained by device hardware limitations, resulting in a substantial performance gap between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Roy Henha Eyono , Fabio Maria Carlucci , Pedro M Esperança , Binxin Ru , Phillip Torr

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to promote a smaller student model. Existing efforts guide the distillation by matching their prediction logits, feature embedding, etc., while leaving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Yiyang Liu , Chenxin Li , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang

Traditional knowledge distillation transfers "dark knowledge" of a pre-trained teacher network to a student network, and ignores the knowledge in the training process of the teacher, which we call teacher's experience. However, in realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Chaofei Wang , Shaowei Zhang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Most teacher-student frameworks based on knowledge distillation (KD) depend on a strong congruent constraint on instance level. However, they usually ignore the correlation between multiple instances, which is also valuable for knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Baoyun Peng , Xiao Jin , Jiaheng Liu , Shunfeng Zhou , Yichao Wu , Yu Liu , Dongsheng Li , Zhaoning Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective tool for compressing deep classification models for edge devices. However, the performance of KD is affected by the large capacity gap between the teacher and student networks. Recent methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Ibtihel Amara , Maryam Ziaeefard , Brett H. Meyer , Warren Gross , James J. Clark

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher to a compact yet well-performing student. Previous KD practices for pre-trained language models mainly transfer knowledge by aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lean Wang , Lei Li , Xu Sun

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 (KD) is one of the most potent ways for model compression. The key idea is to transfer the knowledge from a deep teacher model (T) to a shallower student (S). However, existing methods suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Chen Change Loy

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for transferring knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to a smaller student model by aligning their output distributions. However, existing methods often underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Seonghak Kim

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by minimizing the divergence between their output distributions, typically using forward Kullback-Leibler divergence (FKLD) or reverse KLD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Guanghui Wang , Zhiyong Yang , Zitai Wang , Shi Wang , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising technique for model compression but faces critical limitations: (1) sensitivity to hyperparameters requiring extensive manual tuning, (2) capacity gap when distilling from very large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Gustavo Coelho Haase , Paulo Henrique Dourado da Silva

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by mimicking. However, distillation by directly aligning the feature maps between teacher and student may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziwei Liu , Yongtao Wang , Xiaojie Chu