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Knowledge distillation is an effective technique for pre-trained language model compression. Although existing knowledge distillation methods perform well for the most typical model BERT, they could be further improved in two aspects: the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ying Zhang , Ziheng Yang , Shufan Ji

Knowledge distillation conducts an effective model compression method while holding some limitations:(1) the feature based distillation methods only focus on distilling the feature map but are lack of transferring the relation of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Muzhou Yu , Sia Huat Tan , Kailu Wu , Runpei Dong , Linfeng Zhang , Kaisheng Ma

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) is a popular method to train efficient networks ("student") with the help of high-capacity networks ("teacher"). Traditional methods use the teacher's soft logits as extra supervision to train the student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Guo-Hua Wang , Yifan Ge , Jianxin Wu

The generalization capability of deep neural networks has been substantially improved by applying a wide spectrum of regularization methods, e.g., restricting function space, injecting randomness during training, augmenting data, etc. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Kyungyul Kim , ByeongMoon Ji , Doyoung Yoon , Sangheum Hwang

Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation has demonstrated promising performance on paired modalities with strong semantic connections, referred to as Symmetric Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation (SCKD). However, implementing SCKD becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Riling Wei , Kelu Yao , Chuanguang Yang , Jin Wang , Zhuoyan Gao , Chao Li

Distilled self-supervised models have shown competitive performance and efficiency in recent years. However, there is a lack of experience in jointly distilling multiple self-supervised speech models. In our work, we performed Ensemble…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Kuan-Po Huang , Tzu-hsun Feng , Yu-Kuan Fu , Tsu-Yuan Hsu , Po-Chieh Yen , Wei-Cheng Tseng , Kai-Wei Chang , Hung-yi Lee

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) methods are often either too computationally expensive or not accurate enough due to the trade-off between model complexity and inference performance. In this paper, we propose a lightweight network that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Hualie Jiang , Xiyue Guo , Yuan Gao , Xiangyong Lu , Tin Lun Lam

We study semi-supervised sequence generation tasks, where the few labeled examples are too scarce to finetune a model, and meanwhile, few-shot prompted large language models (LLMs) exhibit room for improvement. In this paper, we present the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jiachen Zhao , Wenlong Zhao , Andrew Drozdov , Benjamin Rozonoyer , Md Arafat Sultan , Jay-Yoon Lee , Mohit Iyyer , Andrew McCallum

Knowledge distillation which learns a lightweight student model by distilling knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model is an attractive approach for learning compact deep neural networks (DNNs). Recent works further improve student network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Cuong Pham , Tuan Hoang , Thanh-Toan Do

Reviewing plays an important role when learning knowledge. The knowledge acquisition at a certain time point may be strongly inspired with the help of previous experience. Thus the knowledge growing procedure should show strong relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Dongwei Wang , Zhi Han , Yanmei Wang , Xiai Chen , Baichen Liu , Yandong Tang

Knowledge distillation~(KD) is an effective learning paradigm for improving the performance of lightweight student networks by utilizing additional supervision knowledge distilled from teacher networks. Most pioneering studies either learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

Due to the data imbalance and the diversity of defects, student-teacher networks (S-T) are favored in unsupervised anomaly detection, which explores the discrepancy in feature representation derived from the knowledge distillation process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Liyi Yao , Shaobing Gao

In this paper, we propose an intra-set and inter-set recursive fusion framework with time-frequency calibrated knowledge distillation (I$^2$SRF-TFCKD) for SE. Different from previous distillation strategies for SE, the proposed framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jiaming Cheng , Ruiyu Liang , Ye Ni , Chao Xu , Jing Li , Wei Zhou , Rui Liu , Björn W. Schuller , Xiaoshuai Hao

In real-world NLP applications, Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising solutions due to their extensive training on vast datasets. However, the large size and high computation demands of LLMs limit their practicality in many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Juanhui Li , Sreyashi Nag , Hui Liu , Xianfeng Tang , Sheikh Sarwar , Limeng Cui , Hansu Gu , Suhang Wang , Qi He , Jiliang Tang

Numerous self-supervised learning paradigms, such as contrastive learning and masked image modeling, learn powerful representations from unlabeled data but are typically pretrained in isolation, overlooking complementary insights and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Sriram Mandalika , Lalitha V

We investigate cross-quality knowledge distillation (CQKD), a knowledge distillation method where knowledge from a teacher network trained with full-resolution images is transferred to a student network that takes as input low-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Pia Čuk , Robin Senge , Mikko Lauri , Simone Frintrop

Quantization-aware training (QAT) and Knowledge Distillation (KD) are combined to achieve competitive performance in creating low-bit deep learning models. However, existing works applying KD to QAT require tedious hyper-parameter tuning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kaiqi Zhao , Ming Zhao

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) have shown powerful generation ability for discrete data modalities like text and molecules. However, their practical application is hindered by inefficient sampling, requiring a large number of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Feiyang Fu , Tongxian Guo , Zhaoqiang Liu

Pretrained language models have led to significant performance gains in many NLP tasks. However, the intensive computing resources to train such models remain an issue. Knowledge distillation alleviates this problem by learning a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Linqing Liu , Huan Wang , Jimmy Lin , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong