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Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation has demonstrated promising performance on paired modalities with strong semantic connections, referred to as Symmetric Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation (SCKD). However, implementing SCKD becomes…

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Most existing online knowledge distillation(OKD) techniques typically require sophisticated modules to produce diverse knowledge for improving students' generalization ability. In this paper, we strive to fully utilize multi-model settings…

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Due to the data imbalance and the diversity of defects, student-teacher networks (S-T) are favored in unsupervised anomaly detection, which explores the discrepancy in feature representation derived from the knowledge distillation process…

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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

Knowledge distillation has attracted a great deal of interest recently to compress pre-trained language models. However, existing knowledge distillation methods suffer from two limitations. First, the student model simply imitates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Siyue Wu , Hongzhan Chen , Xiaojun Quan , Qifan Wang , Rui Wang

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised KD and on-policy KD, are adversely impacted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenda Xu , Rujun Han , Zifeng Wang , Long T. Le , Dhruv Madeka , Lei Li , William Yang Wang , Rishabh Agarwal , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a pivotal technique for neural network compression and performance enhancement. Most KD methods aim to transfer dark knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Niu , Yingchao Wang , Guohui Cai , Hanpo Hou

Knowledge Distillation (KD) for object detection aims to train a compact detector by transferring knowledge from a teacher model. Since the teacher model perceives data in a way different from humans, existing KD methods only distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jiawei Liang , Siyuan Liang , Aishan Liu , Ke Ma , Jingzhi Li , Xiaochun Cao

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers the knowledge from a high-capacity teacher network to strengthen a smaller student. Existing methods focus on excavating the knowledge hints and transferring the whole knowledge to the student. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Chenxin Li , Mingbao Lin , Zhiyuan Ding , Nie Lin , Yihong Zhuang , Yue Huang , Xinghao Ding , Liujuan Cao

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

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable accuracy in computer vision tasks. With inference time being a crucial factor, particularly in dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, knowledge distillation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Amir M. Mansourian , Rozhan Ahmadi , Shohreh Kasaei

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression method that can transfer the internal capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to smaller ones. However, the multi-modal probability distribution predicted by teacher LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Tianyu Peng , Jiajun Zhang

Most of recent attention-guided feature masking distillation methods perform knowledge transfer via global teacher attention maps without delving into fine-grained clues. Instead, performing distillation at finer granularity is conducive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhourui Zhang , Jun Li , Jiayan Li , Jianhua Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been proven to be a simple and effective tool for training compact models. Almost all KD variants for dense prediction tasks align the student and teacher networks' feature maps in the spatial domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Changyong Shu , Yifan Liu , Jianfei Gao , Zheng Yan , Chunhua Shen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods are capable of transferring the knowledge encoded in a large and complex teacher into a smaller and faster student. Early methods were usually limited to transferring the knowledge only between the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nikolaos Passalis , Maria Tzelepi , Anastasios Tefas

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a new method for transferring knowledge of a structure under training to another one. The typical application of KD is in the form of learning a small model (named as a student) by soft labels produced by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Knowledge distillation becomes a de facto standard to improve the performance of small neural networks. Most of the previous works propose to regress the representational features from the teacher to the student in a one-to-one spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Gang Wang

Self-supervised representation learning has proved to be a valuable component for out-of-distribution (OoD) detection with only the texts of in-distribution (ID) examples. These approaches either train a language model from scratch or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Qianhui Wu , Huiqiang Jiang , Haonan Yin , Börje F. Karlsson , Chin-Yew Lin

Neural networks can learn spurious correlations in the data, often leading to performance degradation for underrepresented subgroups. Studies have demonstrated that the disparity is amplified when knowledge is distilled from a complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Patrik Kenfack , Ulrich Aïvodji , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

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.…

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