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Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely applied in semantic segmentation to compress large models, but conventional approaches primarily preserve in-domain accuracy while neglecting out-of-domain generalization, which is essential under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Chonghua Lv , Dong Zhao , Shuang Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Nicu Sebe , Zhun Zhong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown satisfying performance on various graph learning tasks. To achieve better fitting capability, most GNNs are with a large number of parameters, which makes these GNNs computationally expensive.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Yushun Dong , Binchi Zhang , Yiling Yuan , Na Zou , Qi Wang , Jundong Li

We investigate whether knowledge distillation (KD) from multiple heterogeneous teacher models can enhance the generation of transferable adversarial examples. A lightweight student model is trained using two KD strategies: curriculum-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Siddhartha Pradhan , Shikshya Shiwakoti , Neha Bathuri

Transferring knowledge from a cross-encoder teacher via Knowledge Distillation (KD) has become a standard paradigm for training retrieval models. While existing studies have largely focused on mining hard negatives to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Youngjoon Jang , Seongtae Hong , Hyeonseok Moon , Heuiseok Lim

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is an effective framework for compressing deep learning models, realized by a student-teacher paradigm requiring small student networks to mimic the soft target generated by well-trained teachers. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Knowledge distillation is initially introduced to utilize additional supervision from a single teacher model for the student model training. To boost the student performance, some recent variants attempt to exploit diverse knowledge sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Hailin Zhang , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has proven effective for compressing large teacher models into smaller student models. While it is well known that student models can achieve similar accuracies as the teachers, it has also been shown that they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Amin Parchami-Araghi , Moritz Böhle , Sukrut Rao , Bernt Schiele

Knowledge distillation is a mainstream algorithm in model compression by transferring knowledge from the larger model (teacher) to the smaller model (student) to improve the performance of student. Despite many efforts, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Muhe Ding , Jianlong Wu , Xue Dong , Xiaojie Li , Pengda Qin , Tian Gan , Liqiang Nie

Knowledge Distillation (KD) utilizes training data as a transfer set to transfer knowledge from a complex network (Teacher) to a smaller network (Student). Several works have recently identified many scenarios where the training data may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Monish Keswani , Sharan Seshadri , Anirban Chakraborty

Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising technique for addressing the computational challenges associated with deploying large-scale recommender systems. KD transfers the knowledge of a massive teacher system to a compact…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Gyuseok Lee , SeongKu Kang , Wonbin Kweon , Hwanjo Yu

Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training has recently driven major gains in long chain-of-thought reasoning large language models (LLMs), but the high inference cost of such models motivates distillation into smaller students. Most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhaoyang Zhang , Shuli Jiang , Yantao Shen , Yuting Zhang , Dhananjay Ram , Shuo Yang , Zhuowen Tu , Wei Xia , Stefano Soatto

Knowledge distillation aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a compact student counterpart, often coming with a significant performance gap between them. We find that a too-large performance gap can hamper the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yong Guo , Shulian Zhang , Haolin Pan , Jing Liu , Yulun Zhang , Jian Chen

Despite the success that metric learning based approaches have achieved in few-shot learning, recent works reveal the ineffectiveness of their episodic training mode. In this paper, we point out two potential reasons for this problem: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yuan Zhou , Yanrong Guo , Shijie Hao , Richang Hong , Zhengjun Zha , Meng Wang

Although the diffusion model has achieved remarkable performance in the field of image generation, its high inference delay hinders its wide application in edge devices with scarce computing resources. Therefore, many training-free sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fei Wang , Yongjun Xu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for training a compact model with the supervision of another large model, which could effectively improve the performance. Previous methods mainly focus on two aspects: 1) training the student to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tiancheng Wen , Shenqi Lai , Xueming Qian

Large neural models (such as Transformers) achieve state-of-the-art performance for information retrieval (IR). In this paper, we aim to improve distillation methods that pave the way for the resource-efficient deployment of such models in…

Knowledge distillation is normally used to compress a big network, or teacher, onto a smaller one, the student, by training it to match its outputs. Recently, some works have shown that robustness against adversarial attacks can also be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Javier Maroto , Guillermo Ortiz-Jiménez , Pascal Frossard

Knowledge distillation is typically conducted by training a small model (the student) to mimic a large and cumbersome model (the teacher). The idea is to compress the knowledge from the teacher by using its output probabilities as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Gustavo Aguilar , Yuan Ling , Yu Zhang , Benjamin Yao , Xing Fan , Chenlei Guo

In this work, we propose Mutual Information Maximization Knowledge Distillation (MIMKD). Our method uses a contrastive objective to simultaneously estimate and maximize a lower bound on the mutual information of local and global feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Aman Shrivastava , Yanjun Qi , Vicente Ordonez

Knowledge distillation is a method of transferring the knowledge from a pretrained complex teacher model to a student model, so a smaller network can replace a large teacher network at the deployment stage. To reduce the necessity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mingi Ji , Seungjae Shin , Seunghyun Hwang , Gibeom Park , Il-Chul Moon