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Mobile agentic AI is extending autonomous capabilities to resource-constrained platforms such as edge robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), where strict size, weight, power, and cost (SWAP-C) constraints and intermittent wireless…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Guangyuan Liu , Changyuan Zhao , Yinqiu Liu , Dusit Niyato , Biplab Sikdar

Current knowledge distillation (KD) methods for semantic segmentation focus on guiding the student to imitate the teacher's knowledge within homogeneous architectures. However, these methods overlook the diverse knowledge contained in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yanglin Huang , Kai Hu , Yuan Zhang , Zhineng Chen , Xieping Gao

A crucial challenge in decentralized systems is state estimation in the presence of unknown inputs, particularly within heterogeneous sensor networks with dynamic topologies. While numerous consensus algorithms have been introduced, they…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-13 Zida Wu , Ankur Mehta

Previous knowledge distillation (KD) methods mostly focus on compressing network architectures, which is not thorough enough in deployment as some costs like transmission bandwidth and imaging equipment are related to the image size.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Guangyu Guo , Dingwen Zhang , Longfei Han , Nian Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Junwei Han

In this work, we explore data augmentations for knowledge distillation on semantic segmentation. To avoid over-fitting to the noise in the teacher network, a large number of training examples is essential for knowledge distillation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Jianlong Yuan , Qian Qi , Fei Du , Zhibin Wang , Fan Wang , Yifan Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been proven to be a simple and effective tool for training compact models. Almost all KD variants for dense prediction tasks align the student and teacher networks' feature maps in the spatial domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Changyong Shu , Yifan Liu , Jianfei Gao , Zheng Yan , Chunhua Shen

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique for transferring knowledge from complex teacher models to simpler student models, significantly enhancing model efficiency and accuracy. It has demonstrated substantial advancements in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Junjie Yang , Junhao Song , Xudong Han , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Yichao Zhang , Qian Niu , Benji Peng , Keyu Chen , Ming Liu

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in the medical field, the need for its explainability has grown. In medical image analysis, a high degree of transparency and model interpretability can help clinicians…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuchen Jiang , Xinyuan Zhao , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely used technique to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a smaller student model. Traditional KD uses a fixed balancing factor alpha as a hyperparameter to combine the hard-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhengda Li

Distilling knowledge from huge pre-trained networks to improve the performance of tiny networks has favored deep learning models to be used in many real-time and mobile applications. Several approaches that demonstrate success in this field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kaushal Bhogale

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

Knowledge graph is generally incorporated into recommender systems to improve overall performance. Due to the generalization and scale of the knowledge graph, most knowledge relationships are not helpful for a target user-item prediction.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Ke Tu , Peng Cui , Daixin Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Yuan Qi , Wenwu Zhu

Corpus distillation for biomedical large language models (LLMs) seeks to address the pressing challenge of insufficient quantity and quality in open-source annotated scientific corpora, which remains a bottleneck for effective LLM training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Meng Xiao , Xunxin Cai , Qingqing Long , Chengrui Wang , Yuanchun Zhou , Hengshu Zhu

Large language models (LLMs) learn contextual embeddings that capture rich semantic information, yet they often overlook structured lexical knowledge such as word senses and relationships. Prior work has shown that incorporating sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Qitong Wang , Mohammed J. Zaki , Georgios Kollias , Vasileios Kalantzis

Collaborative learning has emerged as a key paradigm in large-scale intelligent systems, enabling distributed agents to cooperatively train their models while addressing their privacy concerns. Central to this paradigm is knowledge…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Pengchao Han , Xi Huang , Yi Fang , Guojun Han

Knowledge distillation is an effective technique for pre-trained language model compression. However, existing methods only focus on the knowledge distribution among layers, which may cause the loss of fine-grained information in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zihe Liu , Yulong Mao , Jinan Xu , Xinrui Peng , Kaiyu Huang

Knowledge distillation has become a cornerstone technique in deep learning, facilitating the transfer of knowledge from complex models to lightweight counterparts. Traditional distillation approaches focus on transferring knowledge at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Zhaoyi Yan , Kangjun Liu , Qixiang Ye

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

Is it possible to design an universal API for federated learning using which an ad-hoc group of data-holders (agents) collaborate with each other and perform federated learning? Such an API would necessarily need to be model-agnostic i.e.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Andrei Afonin , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one proposed solution to large model sizes and slow inference speed in semantic segmentation. In our research we identify 25 proposed distillation loss terms from 14 publications in the last 4 years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Onno Niemann , Christopher Vox , Thorben Werner