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While traditional time-series classifiers assume full sequences at inference, practical constraints (latency and cost) often limit inputs to partial prefixes. The absence of class-discriminative patterns in partial data can significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Nilushika Udayangani , Kishor Nandakishor , Marimuthu Palaniswami

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (KD) allows knowledge transfer from a trained neural network (teacher) to a more compact one (student) in the absence of original training data. Existing works use a validation set to monitor the accuracy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Kuluhan Binici , Shivam Aggarwal , Nam Trung Pham , Karianto Leman , Tulika Mitra

Knowledge distillation is a method of transferring the knowledge from a complex deep neural network (DNN) to a smaller and faster DNN, while preserving its accuracy. Recent variants of knowledge distillation include teaching assistant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Minghong Gao

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a teacher network to a student by enforcing the student to mimic the outputs of the pretrained teacher on training data. However, data samples are not always accessible in many cases due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiang Deng , Zhongfei Zhang

This work introduces a novel knowledge distillation framework for classification tasks where information on existing subclasses is available and taken into consideration. In classification tasks with a small number of classes or binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Ahmad Sajedi , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique to derive optimal performance from a small student network (SN) by distilling knowledge of a large teacher network (TN) and transferring the distilled knowledge to the small SN. Since a role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Seunghyun Lee , Byung Cheol Song

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student by aligning their predictive distributions. However, conventional KD formulations - typically based on Kullback-Leibler divergence - assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ondrej Tybl , Lukas Neumann

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for compressing large models into smaller, more efficient student models that can be deployed on devices with limited computational resources. Among various KD methods, Relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Chen-Yu Liu , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Keisuke Murota , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Enrico Rinaldi

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

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) is an advanced technique that enables knowledge transfer from a teacher model to a student model without relying on original training data. While DFKD methods have achieved success on smaller datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Minh-Tuan Tran , Trung Le , Xuan-May Le , Jianfei Cai , Mehrtash Harandi , Dinh Phung

Knowledge distillation, aimed at transferring the knowledge from a heavy teacher network to a lightweight student network, has emerged as a promising technique for compressing neural networks. However, due to the capacity gap between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xuewei Li , Songyuan Li , Bourahla Omar , Fei Wu , Xi Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the go-to model for graph data analysis. However, GNNs rely on two key operations - aggregation and update, which can pose challenges for low-latency inference tasks or resource-constrained scenarios. Simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Amir Eskandari , Aman Anand , Elyas Rashno , Farhana Zulkernine

Feature-based knowledge distillation aims to transfer intermediate representations from a teacher LLM model to a student. Existing approaches typically rely on direct feature matching or learned projections, implicitly treating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Khouloud Saadi , Di Wang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been extensively used for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks to improve a small model's (a student) generalization by transferring the knowledge from a larger model (a teacher). Although KD methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Aref Jafari , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pascal Poupart , Ali Ghodsi

The performance of federated learning in neural networks is generally influenced by the heterogeneity of the data distribution. For a well-performing global model, taking a weighted average of the local models, as done by most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xinjia Li , Boyu Chen , Wenlian Lu

Knowledge distillation is a powerful technique for transferring knowledge from a pre-trained teacher model to a student model. However, the true potential of knowledge transfer has not been fully explored. Existing approaches primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Kun He

We propose Cross-Attention-based Non-local Knowledge Distillation (CanKD), a novel feature-based knowledge distillation framework that leverages cross-attention mechanisms to enhance the knowledge transfer process. Unlike traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Shizhe Sun , Wataru Ohyama

The proliferation of foundation models, pretrained on large-scale unlabeled datasets, has emerged as an effective approach in creating adaptable and reusable architectures that can be leveraged for various downstream tasks using satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Abdul Matin , Tanjim Bin Faruk , Shrideep Pallickara , Sangmi Lee Pallickara

Data-free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) is a method that constructs pseudo-samples using a generator without real data, and transfers knowledge from a teacher model to a student by enforcing the student to overcome dimensional differences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yuang Jia , Xiaojuan Shan , Jun Xia , Guancheng Wan , Yuchen Zhang , Wenke Huang , Mang Ye , Stan Z. Li

Deep learning has shown its efficacy in extracting useful features to solve various computer vision tasks. However, when the structure of the data is complex and noisy, capturing effective information to improve performance is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Eun Som Jeon , Rahul Khurana , Aishani Pathak , Pavan Turaga