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Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime. We break down the design of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Wenhong Zhu , Ruobing Xie , Rui Wang , Pengfei Liu

Large Language models (LLMs) are achieving state-of-the-art performance in many different downstream tasks. However, the increasing urgency of data privacy puts pressure on practitioners to train LLMs with Differential Privacy (DP) on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 James Flemings , Murali Annavaram

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

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) plays a vital role in compressing the model when original training data is unavailable. Previous works for DFKD in NLP mainly focus on distilling encoder-only structures like BERT on classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zheyuan Bai , Xinduo Liu , Hailin Hu , Tianyu Guo , Qinghua Zhang , Yunhe Wang

Advanced reasoning typically requires Chain-of-Thought prompting, which is accurate but incurs prohibitive latency and substantial test-time inference costs. The standard alternative, fine-tuning smaller models, often sacrifices…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sanket Badhe , Deep Shah

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 (KD) is an effective model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a high-performance teacher to a lightweight student, reducing computational and storage costs while maintaining competitive accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fengming Yu , Haiwei Pan , Kejia Zhang , Jian Guan , Haiying Jiang

Knowledge distillation from LLMs is essential for the efficient deployment of language models. Prior works have proposed data generation using LLMs for preparing distilled models. We argue that generating data with LLMs is prone to sampling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Mohsen Gholami , Mohammad Akbari , Cindy Hu , Vaden Masrani , Z. Jane Wang , Yong Zhang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is known as a promising solution to compress large language models (LLMs) via transferring their knowledge to smaller models. During this process, white-box KD methods usually minimize the distance between the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Songming Zhang , Xue Zhang , Zengkui Sun , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely applied in semantic segmentation to compress large models, but conventional approaches primarily preserve in-domain accuracy while neglecting out-of-domain generalization, which is essential under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chonghua Lv , Dong Zhao , Shuang Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one proposed solution to large model sizes and slow inference speed in semantic segmentation. In our research we identify 25 proposed distillation loss terms from 14 publications in the last 4 years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Onno Niemann , Christopher Vox , Thorben Werner

Visual document understanding (VDU) is a challenging task that involves understanding documents across various modalities (text and image) and layouts (forms, tables, etc.). This study aims to enhance generalizability of small VDU models by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Sungnyun Kim , Haofu Liao , Srikar Appalaraju , Peng Tang , Zhuowen Tu , Ravi Kumar Satzoda , R. Manmatha , Vijay Mahadevan , Stefano Soatto

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is an effective framework for compressing deep learning models, realized by a student-teacher paradigm requiring small student networks to mimic the soft target generated by well-trained teachers. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated astonishing capabilities in natural language processing (NLP) tasks, sparking interest in their application to professional domains with higher specialized requirements. However, restricted…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zheyan Qu , Lu Yin , Zitong Yu , Wenbo Wang , Xing zhang

This paper aims to explore the potential of combining Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) with Knowledge Distillation (KD) by distilling various DRL algorithms and studying their distillation effects. By doing so, the computational burden of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Guanlin Meng

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

Federated learning is widely used to learn intelligent models from decentralized data. In federated learning, clients need to communicate their local model updates in each iteration of model learning. However, model updates are large in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Knowledge distillation is widely applied in various fundamental vision models to enhance the performance of compact models. Existing knowledge distillation methods focus on designing different distillation targets to acquire knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Yaoze Zhang , Yuming Zhang , Yu Zhao , Yue Zhang , Feiyu Zhu

We propose a novel knowledge distillation approach, CustomKD, that effectively leverages large vision foundation models (LVFMs) to enhance the performance of edge models (e.g., MobileNetV3). Despite recent advancements in LVFMs, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jungsoo Lee , Debasmit Das , Munawar Hayat , Sungha Choi , Kyuwoong Hwang , Fatih Porikli

Deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable success in object detection, yet their complexity and computational intensity pose a barrier to deploying them in real-world applications (e.g., self-driving perception). Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian