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Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of model compression, substantially reducing the dependency on the original training data. Nonetheless, conventional DFKD methods that employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Muquan Li , Dongyang Zhang , Tao He , Xiurui Xie , Yuan-Fang Li , Ke Qin

Knowledge distillation extracts general knowledge from a pre-trained teacher network and provides guidance to a target student network. Most studies manually tie intermediate features of the teacher and student, and transfer knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Mingi Ji , Byeongho Heo , Sungrae Park

Knowledge distillation field delicately designs various types of knowledge to shrink the performance gap between compact student and large-scale teacher. These existing distillation approaches simply focus on the improvement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Xuanyang Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang , Jian Sun

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge in a teacher-student framework, by providing the predictions of the teacher network to the student network in the training stage to help the student network generalize better. It can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

The performance of federated learning in neural networks is generally influenced by the heterogeneity of the data distribution. For a well-performing global model, taking a weighted average of the local models, as done by most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xinjia Li , Boyu Chen , Wenlian Lu

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

Most current federated learning frameworks are modeled as static processes, ignoring the dynamic characteristics of the learning system. Under the limited communication budget of the central server, the flexible model architecture of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiting Zheng , Bohan Lin , Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

Knowledge distillation transfers knowledge from a high capacity teacher to a compact student using a mixture of hard and soft losses. On imbalanced data, a fixed weighting between hard and soft losses becomes brittle the learning process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Anh B. H. Nguyen , Ba Tho Phan , Viet Cuong Ta

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at improving the performance of a low-capacity student model by inheriting knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model. Previous KD methods typically train a student by minimizing a task-related loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Junjie Yan , Liang Wan , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been applied to various tasks successfully, and mainstream methods typically boost the student model via spatial imitation losses. However, the consecutive downsamplings induced in the spatial domain of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Yuan Zhang , Tao Huang , Jiaming Liu , Tao Jiang , Kuan Cheng , Shanghang Zhang

Knowledge distillation, aimed at transferring the knowledge from a heavy teacher network to a lightweight student network, has emerged as a promising technique for compressing neural networks. However, due to the capacity gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xuewei Li , Songyuan Li , Bourahla Omar , Fei Wu , Xi Li

In this research, we propose an innovative method to boost Knowledge Distillation efficiency without the need for resource-heavy teacher models. Knowledge Distillation trains a smaller ``student'' model with guidance from a larger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Divyang Doshi , Jung-Eun Kim

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

Deep learning techniques have been demonstrated to surpass preceding cutting-edge machine learning techniques in recent years, with computer vision being one of the most prominent examples. However, deep learning models suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Gousia Habib , Tausifa jan Saleem , Sheikh Musa Kaleem , Tufail Rouf , Brejesh Lall

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

This paper addresses the problem of model compression via knowledge distillation. To this end, we propose a new knowledge distillation method based on transferring feature statistics, specifically the channel-wise mean and variance, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Jing Yang , Brais Martinez , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Both accuracy and efficiency are of significant importance to the task of semantic segmentation. Existing deep FCNs suffer from heavy computations due to a series of high-resolution feature maps for preserving the detailed knowledge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Tong He , Chunhua Shen , Zhi Tian , Dong Gong , Changming Sun , Youliang Yan

Knowledge distillation is a widely adopted technique for model lightening. However, the performance of most knowledge distillation methods in the domain of object detection is not satisfactory. Typically, knowledge distillation approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Hai Su , ZhenWen Jian , Songsen Yu

Incremental learning targets at achieving good performance on new categories without forgetting old ones. Knowledge distillation has been shown critical in preserving the performance on old classes. Conventional methods, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Peng Zhou , Long Mai , Jianming Zhang , Ning Xu , Zuxuan Wu , Larry S. Davis

This paper aims to provide a selective survey about knowledge distillation(KD) framework for researchers and practitioners to take advantage of it for developing new optimized models in the deep neural network field. To this end, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jeong-Hoe Ku , JiHun Oh , YoungYoon Lee , Gaurav Pooniwala , SangJeong Lee