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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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been used in image classification for model compression. However, rare studies apply this technology on single-stage object detectors. Focal loss shows that the accumulated errors of easily-classified samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shitao Tang , Litong Feng , Wenqi Shao , Zhanghui Kuang , Wei Zhang , Yimin Chen

Knowledge distillation is an attractive approach for learning compact deep neural networks, which learns a lightweight student model by distilling knowledge from a complex teacher model. Attention-based knowledge distillation is a specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Cuong Pham , Van-Anh Nguyen , Trung Le , Dinh Phung , Gustavo Carneiro , Thanh-Toan Do

Knowledge distillation is a technique to enhance the generalization ability of a student model by exploiting outputs from a teacher model. Recently, feature-map based variants explore knowledge transfer between manually assigned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Defang Chen , Jian-Ping Mei , Yuan Zhang , Can Wang , Yan Feng , Chun Chen

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become a well established paradigm for compressing deep neural networks. The typical way of conducting knowledge distillation is to train the student network under the supervision of the teacher network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Jie Song , Ying Chen , Jingwen Ye , Mingli Song

Online HD map construction is a fundamental task in autonomous driving systems, aiming to acquire semantic information of map elements around the ego vehicle based on real-time sensor inputs. Recently, several approaches have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ziyang Yan , Ruikai Li , Zhiyong Cui , Bohan Li , Han Jiang , Yilong Ren , Aoyong Li , Zhenning Li , Sijia Wen , Haiyang Yu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a popular method to train efficient networks ("student") with the help of high-capacity networks ("teacher"). Traditional methods use the teacher's soft logits as extra supervision to train the student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Guo-Hua Wang , Yifan Ge , Jianxin Wu

In this work, we explore data augmentations for knowledge distillation on semantic segmentation. To avoid over-fitting to the noise in the teacher network, a large number of training examples is essential for knowledge distillation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jianlong Yuan , Qian Qi , Fei Du , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang , Yifan Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from large teacher models to compact student models, enabling efficient deployment on resource constrained devices. While diverse KD methods, including response based, feature based, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yinxi Tian , Changwu Huang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses neural networks by learning a small network (student) via transferring knowledge from a pre-trained large network (teacher). Many endeavours have been devoted to the image domain, while few works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ping Li , Chenhao Ping , Wenxiao Wang , Mingli Song

Distilling from the feature maps can be fairly effective for dense prediction tasks since both the feature discriminability and localization priors can be well transferred. However, not every pixel contributes equally to the performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tao Huang , Yuan Zhang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Jian Cao , Chang Xu

Distilling the structured information captured in feature maps has contributed to improved results for object detection tasks, but requires careful selection of baseline architectures and substantial pre-training. Self-distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jieren Deng , Xin Zhou , Hao Tian , Zhihong Pan , Derek Aguiar

Transformer-based encoder-decoder models have achieved remarkable success in image-to-image transfer tasks, particularly in image restoration. However, their high computational complexity-manifested in elevated FLOPs and parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yongheng Zhang , Danfeng Yan

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

We introduce Layered Self-Supervised Knowledge Distillation (LSSKD) framework for training compact deep learning models. Unlike traditional methods that rely on pre-trained teacher networks, our approach appends auxiliary classifiers to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Tarique Dahri , Zulfiqar Ali Memon , Zhenyu Yu , Mohd. Yamani Idna Idris , Sheheryar Khan , Sadiq Ahmad , Maged Shoman , Saddam Aziz , Rizwan Qureshi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) emerge to achieve impressive performance on many data-abundant computer vision tasks by capturing long-range dependencies among local features. However, under few-shot learning (FSL) settings on small datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Han Lin , Guangxing Han , Jiawei Ma , Shiyuan Huang , Xudong Lin , Shih-Fu Chang

The proliferation of foundation models, pretrained on large-scale unlabeled datasets, has emerged as an effective approach in creating adaptable and reusable architectures that can be leveraged for various downstream tasks using satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Abdul Matin , Tanjim Bin Faruk , Shrideep Pallickara , Sangmi Lee Pallickara

Change detection, which aims to detect spatial changes from a pair of multi-temporal images due to natural or man-made causes, has been widely applied in remote sensing, disaster management, urban management, etc. Most existing change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Binghao Lu , Caiwen Ding , Jinbo Bi , Dongjin Song

Regarding intelligent transportation systems, low-bitrate transmission via lossy point cloud compression is vital for facilitating real-time collaborative perception among connected agents, such as vehicles and infrastructures, under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hao Jing , Anhong Wang , Yifan Zhang , Donghan Bu , Junhui Hou

Weakly Supervised Object Detection (WSOD) has emerged as an effective tool to train object detectors using only the image-level category labels. However, without object-level labels, WSOD detectors are prone to detect bounding boxes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Zeyi Huang , Yang Zou , Vijayakumar Bhagavatula , Dong Huang