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Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising approach for transferring knowledge from a larger, more complex teacher model to a smaller student model. Traditionally, KD involves training the student to mimic the teacher's output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Noel Loo , Fotis Iliopoulos , Wei Hu , Erik Vee

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

Knowledge Distillation refers to a class of methods that transfers the knowledge from a teacher network to a student network. In this paper, we propose Sparse Representation Matching (SRM), a method to transfer intermediate knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Dat Thanh Tran , Moncef Gabbouj , Alexandros Iosifidis

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is essential in transferring dark knowledge from a large teacher to a small student network, such that the student can be much more efficient than the teacher but with comparable accuracy. Existing KD methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Junjie Zhou , Ke Zhu , Jianxin Wu

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) predominantly emphasize feature-level knowledge transfer, frequently overlooking critical information embedded within the teacher's logit distributions. In this paper, we revisit logit-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qi Wang , Jinjia Zhou

Speech denoising is a generally adopted and impactful task, appearing in many common and everyday-life use cases. Although there are very powerful methods published, most of those are too complex for deployment in everyday and low-resources…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Diep Luong , Mikko Heikkinen , Konstantinos Drossos , Tuomas Virtanen

We propose a novel knowledge distillation approach to facilitate the transfer of dark knowledge from a teacher to a student. Contrary to most of the existing methods that rely on effective training of student models given pretrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Dae Young Park , Moon-Hyun Cha , Changwook Jeong , Dae Sin Kim , Bohyung Han

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to learn a compact student network using knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher network, where both networks are trained on data from the same distribution. However, in practical applications, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Gang Niu , Hongyuan Zhu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Chen Gong , Masashi Sugiyama

Previous knowledge distillation methods have shown their impressive performance on model compression tasks, however, it is hard to explain how the knowledge they transferred helps to improve the performance of the student network. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Ziyao Guo , Haonan Yan , Hui Li , Xiaodong Lin

Compact models can be effectively trained through Knowledge Distillation (KD), a technique that transfers knowledge from larger, high-performing teacher models. Two key challenges in Knowledge Distillation (KD) are: 1) balancing learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeeshan Hayder , Ali Cheraghian , Lars Petersson , Mehrtash Harandi

In this paper, we introduce a novel knowledge distillation approach for the semantic segmentation task. Unlike previous methods that rely on power-trained teachers or other modalities to provide additional knowledge, our approach does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shoumeng Qiu , Jie Chen , Xinrun Li , Ru Wan , Xiangyang Xue , Jian Pu

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

The representation gap between teacher and student is an emerging topic in knowledge distillation (KD). To reduce the gap and improve the performance, current methods often resort to complicated training schemes, loss functions, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tao Huang , Yuan Zhang , Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

In most cases deep learning architectures are trained disregarding the amount of operations and energy consumption. However, some applications, like embedded systems, can be resource-constrained during inference. A popular approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Carlos Lassance , Myriam Bontonou , Ghouthi Boukli Hacene , Vincent Gripon , Jian Tang , Antonio Ortega

Consistency regularization has been widely studied in recent semisupervised semantic segmentation methods, and promising performance has been achieved. In this work, we propose a new consistency regularization framework, termed mutual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Jianlong Yuan , Jinchao Ge , Zhibin Wang , Yifan Liu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved significant advancement in computer vision tasks due to their powerful modeling capacity. However, their performance notably degrades when trained with insufficient data due to lack of inherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Omar S. EL-Assiouti , Ghada Hamed , Dina Khattab , Hala M. Ebied

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has recently emerged as a popular method for compressing neural networks. In recent studies, generalized distillation methods that find parameters and architectures of student models at the same time have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Taehyeon Kim , Heesoo Myeong , Se-Young Yun

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a model compression technique that transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model to enhance its performance. Existing methods often assume that the student model is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Jianhua Zhang , Yi Gao , Ruyu Liu , Xu Cheng , Houxiang Zhang , Shengyong Chen

Existing knowledge distillation (KD) methods have demonstrated their ability in achieving student network performance on par with their teachers. However, the knowledge gap between the teacher and student remains significant and may hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Shuoxi Zhang , Zijian Song , Kun He

Due to limitations in data quality, some essential visual tasks are difficult to perform independently. Introducing previously unavailable information to transfer informative dark knowledge has been a common way to solve such hard tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lingyu Si , Hongwei Dong , Wenwen Qiang , Junzhi Yu , Wenlong Zhai , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu , Fuchun Sun