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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 existing methods for concept unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models minimize a mean squared error (MSE) loss between the denoiser outputs conditioned on a target and an anchor concept, which is implicitly the KL divergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Nicola Novello , Federico Fontana , Luigi Cinque , Deniz Gunduz , Andrea M. Tonello

Estimating the Kullback--Leibler (KL) divergence between language models has many applications, e.g., reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), interpretability, and knowledge distillation. However, computing the exact KL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Afra Amini , Tim Vieira , Ryan Cotterell

This study proposes a knowledge distillation algorithm based on large language models and feature alignment, aiming to effectively transfer the knowledge of large pre-trained models into lightweight student models, thereby reducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shuo Wang , Chihang Wang , Jia Gao , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a valuable yet challenging approach that enhances a compact student network by learning from a high-performance but cumbersome teacher model. However, previous KD methods for image restoration overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yunshuai Zhou , Junbo Qiao , Jincheng Liao , Wei Li , Simiao Li , Jiao Xie , Yunhang Shen , Jie Hu , Shaohui Lin

Cross-modality distillation arises as an important topic for data modalities containing limited knowledge such as depth maps and high-quality sketches. Such techniques are of great importance, especially for memory and privacy-restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hangyu Lin , Chen Liu , Chengming Xu , Zhengqi Gao , Yanwei Fu , Yuan Yao

Since the advent of knowledge distillation, much research has focused on how the soft labels generated by the teacher model can be utilized effectively. Existing studies points out that the implicit knowledge within soft labels originates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hua Yuan , Ning Xu , Xin Geng , Yong Rui

Deep learning for Information Retrieval (IR) requires a large amount of high-quality query-document relevance labels, but such labels are inherently sparse. Label smoothing redistributes some observed probability mass over unobserved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jihyuk Kim , Minsoo Kim , Seung-won Hwang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) uses the teacher's prediction logits as soft labels to guide the student, while self-KD does not need a real teacher to require the soft labels. This work unifies the formulations of the two tasks by decomposing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhendong Yang , Ailing Zeng , Zhe Li , Tianke Zhang , Chun Yuan , Yu Li

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by minimizing the divergence between their output distributions, typically using forward Kullback-Leibler divergence (FKLD) or reverse KLD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Guanghui Wang , Zhiyong Yang , Zitai Wang , Shi Wang , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

This short note is on a property of the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence which indicates that independent Gaussian distributions minimize the KL divergence from given independent Gaussian distributions. The primary purpose of this note is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

Although spatial information of images usually enhance the robustness of the Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) algorithm, it greatly increases the computational costs for image segmentation. To achieve a sound trade-off between the segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Cong Wang , Witold Pedrycz , ZhiWu Li , MengChu Zhou

Knowledge distillation typically involves transferring knowledge from a Large Language Model (LLM) to a Smaller Language Model (SLM). However, in tasks such as text matching, fine-tuned smaller models often yield more effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Mingzhe Li , Jing Xiang , Qishen Zhang , Kaiyang Wan , Xiuying Chen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model compression algorithm that helps transfer the knowledge of a large neural network into a smaller one. Even though KD has shown promise on a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Tianda Li , Ahmad Rashid , Aref Jafari , Pranav Sharma , Ali Ghodsi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Kullback-Leibler divergence (KL) regularization is widely used in reinforcement learning, but it becomes infinite under support mismatch and can degenerate in low-noise limits. Utilizing a unified information-geometric framework, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Viktor Stein , Adwait Datar , Nihat Ay

A persistent structural weakness in deep clustering is the disconnect between feature learning and cluster assignment. Most architectures invoke an external clustering step, typically k-means, to produce pseudo-labels that guide training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Giansalvo Cirrincione

Real-world data usually suffers from severe class imbalance and long-tailed distributions, where minority classes are significantly underrepresented compared to the majority ones. Recent research prefers to utilize multi-expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Zhengzhuo Xu , Zenghao Chai , Chengyin Xu , Chun Yuan , Haiqin Yang

Web image datasets curated online inherently contain ambiguous in-distribution (ID) instances and out-of-distribution (OOD) instances, which we collectively call non-conforming (NC) instances. In many recent approaches for mitigating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Xia Huang , Kai Fong Ernest Chong

Neural models, with their ability to provide novel representations, have shown promising results in prediction tasks in healthcare. However, patient demographics, medical technology, and quality of care change over time. This often leads to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Miguel Rios , Ameen Abu-Hanna

This work aims to empirically clarify a recently discovered perspective that label smoothing is incompatible with knowledge distillation. We begin by introducing the motivation behind on how this incompatibility is raised, i.e., label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zhiqiang Shen , Zechun Liu , Dejia Xu , Zitian Chen , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Marios Savvides
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