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Knowledge distillation is the process of transferring the knowledge from a large model to a small model. In this process, the small model learns the generalization ability of the large model and retains the performance close to that of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Zhenyan Hou , Wenxuan Fan

Efficient long-context LLM deployment is stalled by a dichotomy between amortized compression, which struggles with out-of-distribution generalization, and Test-Time Training, which incurs prohibitive synthetic data costs and requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zeju Li , Yizhou Zhou , Qiang Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been a predominant method for compressing Large Language Models (LLMs). In this paper, we first revisit KD and Low-Rank Adaption (LoRA) and demonstrate that they follow the same paradigm. Inspired by this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Runming Yang , Taiqiang Wu , Jiahao Wang , Pengfei Hu , Yik-Chung Wu , Ngai Wong , Yujiu Yang

By design, large language models (LLMs) are static general-purpose models, expensive to retrain or update frequently. As they are increasingly adopted for knowledge-intensive tasks, it becomes evident that these design choices lead to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Shangbin Feng , Weijia Shi , Yuyang Bai , Vidhisha Balachandran , Tianxing He , Yulia Tsvetkov

Pre-trained language models (PLM) have advanced the state-of-the-art across NLP applications, but lack domain-specific knowledge that does not naturally occur in pre-training data. Previous studies augmented PLMs with symbolic knowledge for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Denis Emelin , Daniele Bonadiman , Sawsan Alqahtani , Yi Zhang , Saab Mansour

Current general-purpose large language models (LLMs) commonly exhibit knowledge hallucination and insufficient domain-specific adaptability in domain-specific tasks, limiting their effectiveness in specialized question answering scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mengzheng Yang , Yanfei Ren , David Osei Opoku , Ruochang Li , Peng Ren , Chunxiao Xing

As large language models increasingly mediate firm - customer interactions, firms face a tradeoff: the most capable models perform well but are costly and difficult to control at scale. Existing knowledge distillation methods address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Tong Wang , K. Sudhir

Sequential recommendation models user interests based on historical behaviors to provide personalized recommendation. Previous sequential recommendation algorithms primarily employ neural networks to extract features of user interests,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Li Li , Mingyue Cheng , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Context-grounded generation underpins many LLM applications, including long-document question answering (QA), conversational personalization, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). However, classic token-based context concatenation is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Minghao Tang , Shiyu Ni , Jingtong Wu , Zengxin Han , Keping Bi

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) into efficient, deployable architectures while preserving their advanced capabilities. Recent advances in low-rank knowledge…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Alberlucia Rafael Soarez , Daniel Kim , Mariana Costa , Alejandro Torre

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for autonomous vehicle motion planning by reformulating trajectory prediction as a language generation problem. However, deploying capable LLMs in resource-constrained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Amirhossein Afsharrad , Amirhesam Abedsoltan , Ahmadreza Moradipari , Sanjay Lall

Continual learning, involving sequential training on diverse tasks, often faces catastrophic forgetting. While knowledge distillation-based approaches exhibit notable success in preventing forgetting, we pinpoint a limitation in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zenglin Shi , Pei Liu , Tong Su , Yunpeng Wu , Kuien Liu , Yu Song , Meng Wang

This research combines Knowledge Distillation (KD) and Mixture of Experts (MoE) to develop modular, efficient multilingual language models. Key objectives include evaluating adaptive versus fixed alpha methods in KD and comparing modular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Mohammed Al-Maamari , Mehdi Ben Amor , Michael Granitzer

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

Although large foundation models pre-trained by self-supervised learning have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks including automatic speech recognition (ASR), knowledge distillation (KD) is often required in practice to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiaoyu Yang , Qiujia Li , Chao Zhang , Philip C. Woodland

The traditional RAG paradigm, which typically engages in the comprehension of relevant text chunks in response to received queries, inherently restricts both the depth of knowledge internalization and reasoning capabilities. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jihao Zhao , Zhiyuan Ji , Simin Niu , Hanyu Wang , Feiyu Xiong , Zhiyu Li

Many recommender models have been proposed to investigate how to incorporate multimodal content information into traditional collaborative filtering framework effectively. The use of multimodal information is expected to provide more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Jinghao Zhang , Guofan Liu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Practical autonomous driving systems face two crucial challenges: memory constraints and domain gap issues. In this paper, we present a novel approach to learn domain adaptive knowledge in models with limited memory, thus bestowing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Divya Kothandaraman , Athira Nambiar , Anurag Mittal

The multimodal knowledge graph reasoning (MKGR) task aims to predict the missing facts in the incomplete MKGs by leveraging auxiliary images and descriptions of entities. Existing approaches are trained with single-target objectives, which…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yu Zhao , Ying Zhang , Xuhui Sui , Baohang Zhou , Haoze Zhu , Jeff Z. Pan , Xiaojie Yuan

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a prominent technique for model compression. However, conventional KD approaches primarily focus on homogeneous architectures with identical tokenizers, constraining their applicability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yijie Chen , Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou