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We investigate whether knowledge distillation (KD) from multiple heterogeneous teacher models can enhance the generation of transferable adversarial examples. A lightweight student model is trained using two KD strategies: curriculum-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Siddhartha Pradhan , Shikshya Shiwakoti , Neha Bathuri

Collaborative learning has emerged as a key paradigm in large-scale intelligent systems, enabling distributed agents to cooperatively train their models while addressing their privacy concerns. Central to this paradigm is knowledge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Pengchao Han , Xi Huang , Yi Fang , Guojun Han

Knowledge distillation aims to enhance the performance of a lightweight student model by exploiting the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher model. However, in the traditional knowledge distillation, teacher predictions are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shiya Luo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a well-known method to reduce inference latency by compressing a cumbersome teacher model to a small student model. Despite the success of KD in the classification task, applying KD to recommender models is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Jae-woong Lee , Minjin Choi , Jongwuk Lee , Hyunjung Shim

Large pretrained language models have achieved state-of-the-art results on a variety of downstream tasks. Knowledge Distillation (KD) into a smaller student model addresses their inefficiency, allowing for deployment in resource-constrained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Aashka Trivedi , Takuma Udagawa , Michele Merler , Rameswar Panda , Yousef El-Kurdi , Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee

Large-scale contrastive learning models can learn very informative sentence embeddings, but are hard to serve online due to the huge model size. Therefore, they often play the role of "teacher", transferring abilities to small "student"…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Chaochen Gao , Xing Wu , Peng Wang , Jue Wang , Liangjun Zang , Zhongyuan Wang , Songlin Hu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression technique where a compact student network is taught to mimic the behavior of a complex and highly trained teacher network. In contrast, Mutual Learning (ML) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Usma Niyaz , Deepti R. Bathula

Logit-based knowledge distillation (KD) for classification is cost-efficient compared to feature-based KD but often subject to inferior performance. Recently, it was shown that the performance of logit-based KD can be improved by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Hyungkeun Park , Jong-Seok Lee

Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) refers to the scenario in which a learning framework must handle training and test data that exhibit a modality mismatch, more precisely, training and test data do not cover the same set of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Dino Ienco , Cassio Fraga Dantas

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted and effective method for compressing models in object detection tasks. Particularly, feature-based distillation methods have shown remarkable performance. Existing approaches often ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Junfei Yi , Jianxu Mao , Tengfei Liu , Mingjie Li , Hanyu Gu , Hui Zhang , Xiaojun Chang , Yaonan Wang

Knowledge distillation is a mainstream algorithm in model compression by transferring knowledge from the larger model (teacher) to the smaller model (student) to improve the performance of student. Despite many efforts, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muhe Ding , Jianlong Wu , Xue Dong , Xiaojie Li , Pengda Qin , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

Many existing studies on knowledge distillation have focused on methods in which a student model mimics a teacher model well. Simply imitating the teacher's knowledge, however, is not sufficient for the student to surpass that of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jihyeon Seo , Kyusam Oh , Chanho Min , Yongkeun Yun , Sungwoo Cho

This study proposes a knowledge distillation algorithm based on large language models and feature alignment, aiming to effectively transfer the knowledge of large pre-trained models into lightweight student models, thereby reducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shuo Wang , Chihang Wang , Jia Gao , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for code understanding. However, deploying these PLMs in large-scale applications faces practical challenges due to their computational intensity and inference latency.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruiqi Wang , Zezhou Yang , Cuiyun Gao , Xin Xia , Qing Liao

Knowledge distillation often involves how to define and transfer knowledge from teacher to student effectively. Although recent self-supervised contrastive knowledge achieves the best performance, forcing the network to learn such knowledge…

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

The amount of medical images for training deep classification models is typically very scarce, making these deep models prone to overfit the training data. Studies showed that knowledge distillation (KD), especially the mean-teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Xiaohan Xing , Yuenan Hou , Hang Li , Yixuan Yuan , Hongsheng Li , Max Q. -H. Meng

Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE), which projects entities and relations into continuous vector spaces, has garnered significant attention. Although high-dimensional KGE methods offer better performance, they come at the expense of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Yichen Liu , Jiawei Chen , Defang Chen , Zhehui Zhou , Yan Feng , Can Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has proved to be an effective approach for deep neural network compression, which learns a compact network (student) by transferring the knowledge from a pre-trained, over-parameterized network (teacher). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi Wang

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective contrastive knowledge distillation framework that achieves sample-wise logit alignment while preserving semantic consistency. Conventional knowledge distillation approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Wencheng Zhu , Xin Zhou , Pengfei Zhu , Yu Wang , Qinghua Hu

Deep cascaded architectures for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acceleration have shown remarkable success in providing high-quality reconstruction. However, as the number of cascades increases, the improvements in reconstruction tend to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-06 Matcha Naga Gayathri , Sriprabha Ramanarayanan , Mohammad Al Fahim , Rahul G S , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam