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Since deep learning became a key player in natural language processing (NLP), many deep learning models have been showing remarkable performances in a variety of NLP tasks, and in some cases, they are even outperforming humans. Such high…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Sangchul Hahn , Heeyoul Choi

Distillation (Hinton et al., 2015) and privileged information (Vapnik & Izmailov, 2015) are two techniques that enable machines to learn from other machines. This paper unifies these two techniques into generalized distillation, a framework…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-20 David Lopez-Paz , Léon Bottou , Bernhard Schölkopf , Vladimir Vapnik

Current approaches for restoration of degraded images face a trade-off: high-performance models are slow for practical use, while fast models produce poor results. Knowledge distillation transfers teacher knowledge to students, but existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shourya Verma , Mengbo Wang , Nadia Atallah Lanman , Ananth Grama

Recent advances in diffusion generative models have yielded remarkable progress. While the quality of generated content continues to improve, these models have grown considerably in size and complexity. This increasing computational burden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Reza Shirkavand , Peiran Yu , Shangqian Gao , Gowthami Somepalli , Tom Goldstein , Heng Huang

Unseen noise signal which is not considered in a model training process is difficult to anticipate and would lead to performance degradation. Various methods have been investigated to mitigate unseen noise. In our previous work, an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-24 Donghyeon Kim , Gwantae Kim , Bokyeung Lee , Jeong-gi Kwak , David K. Han , Hanseok Ko

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims at removing the influence of specific data from a pretrained model while preserving performance on the remaining data. In this work, a novel perspective for MU is presented upon low-dimensional feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kun Fang , Qinghua Tao , Junxu Liu , Yaxin Xiao , Qingqing Ye , Jian Sun , Haibo Hu

Machine Unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data or concepts from trained models while preserving overall performance, a capability increasingly required by data protection regulations and responsible AI practices. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Natnael Mola , Leonardo S. B. Pereira , Carolina R. Kelsch , Luis H. Arribas , Juan C. S. M. Avedillo

Dataset distillation has emerged as a technique aiming to condense informative features from large, natural datasets into a compact and synthetic form. While recent advancements have refined this technique, its performance is bottlenecked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Xin Zhang , Jiawei Du , Ping Liu , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Learning disentangled representation of data without supervision is an important step towards improving the interpretability of generative models. Despite recent advances in disentangled representation learning, existing approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Wonkwang Lee , Donggyun Kim , Seunghoon Hong , Honglak Lee

Memory-efficient transfer learning (METL) approaches have recently achieved promising performance in adapting pre-trained models to downstream tasks. They avoid applying gradient backpropagation in large backbones, thus significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yutong Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Honglin Chen , Kaiqi Zheng , Shengcai Liao , Hanwen Zhong , Weixin Li , Yunhong Wang

Learned image compression sits at the intersection of machine learning and image processing. With advances in deep learning, neural network-based compression methods have emerged. In this process, an encoder maps the image to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Fabien Allemand , Attilio Fiandrotti , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Alaa Eddine Mazouz

Occluded person re-identification aims to retrieve holistic images based on occluded ones. Existing methods often rely on aligning visible body parts, applying occlusion augmentation, or complementing missing semantics using holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yufei Zheng , Wenjun Wang , Wenjun Gan , Jiawei Liu

Foundation models (FMs) such as CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot performance across various tasks by leveraging large-scale, unsupervised pre-training. However, they often inherit harmful or unwanted knowledge from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zeliang Zhang , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Ramana Rao Kompella , Chenliang Xu

Learning disentangled representations of data is a fundamental problem in artificial intelligence. Specifically, disentangled latent representations allow generative models to control and compose the disentangled factors in the synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Yotam Nitzan , Amit Bermano , Yangyan Li , Daniel Cohen-Or

Distillation addresses the slow sampling problem in diffusion models by creating models with smaller size or fewer steps that approximate the behavior of high-step teachers. In this work, we propose a reinforcement learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amirhossein Tighkhorshid , Zahra Dehghanian , Gholamali Aminian , Chengchun Shi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Rehearsal-based video incremental learning often employs knowledge distillation to mitigate catastrophic forgetting of previously learned data. However, this method faces two major challenges for video task: substantial computing resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shengqin Jiang , Yaoyu Fang , Haokui Zhang , Qingshan Liu , Yuankai Qi , Yang Yang , Peng Wang

Disentangling data into interpretable and independent factors is critical for controllable generation tasks. With the availability of labeled data, supervision can help enforce the separation of specific factors as expected. However, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Sitao Xiang , Yuming Gu , Pengda Xiang , Menglei Chai , Hao Li , Yajie Zhao , Mingming He

In recent years, Federated Unlearning (FU) has gained attention for addressing the removal of a client's influence from the global model in Federated Learning (FL) systems, thereby ensuring the ``right to be forgotten" (RTBF).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ziyao Liu , Huanyi Ye , Yu Jiang , Jiyuan Shen , Jiale Guo , Ivan Tjuawinata , Kwok-Yan Lam

As a means to balance the growth of the AI industry with the need for privacy protection, machine unlearning plays a crucial role in realizing the ``right to be forgotten'' in artificial intelligence. This technique enables AI systems to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Eun-Ju Park , Youjin Shin , Simon S. Woo

One of the major limitations of deep learning models is that they face catastrophic forgetting in an incremental learning scenario. There have been several approaches proposed to tackle the problem of incremental learning. Most of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Vinod K Kurmi , Badri N. Patro , Venkatesh K. Subramanian , Vinay P. Namboodiri