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This study comprehensively explores knowledge distillation frameworks for COVID-19 and lung cancer classification using chest X-ray (CXR) images. We employ high-capacity teacher models, including VGG19 and lightweight Vision Transformers…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Aqib Nazir Mir , Danish Raza Rizvi

In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation (KD) strategy for object detection and propose an effective framework applicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous student-teacher pairs. The conventional feature imitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Lewei Yao , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Tong Zhang

Masked autoencoders have become popular training paradigms for self-supervised visual representation learning. These models randomly mask a portion of the input and reconstruct the masked portion according to the target representations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xingbin Liu , Jinghao Zhou , Tao Kong , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

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

The widespread use of multi-sensor systems has increased research in multi-view action recognition. While existing approaches in multi-view setups with fully overlapping sensors benefit from consistent view coverage, partially overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Vijay John , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

Masked Autoencoders (MAE) achieve self-supervised learning of image representations by randomly removing a portion of visual tokens and reconstructing the original image as a pretext task, thereby significantly enhancing pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jiaxuan Li , Qing Xu , Xiangjian He , Ziyu Liu , Chang Xing , Zhen Chen , Daokun Zhang , Rong Qu , Chang Wen Chen

Masked image modeling (MIM) learns representations with remarkably good fine-tuning performances, overshadowing previous prevalent pre-training approaches such as image classification, instance contrastive learning, and image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yixuan Wei , Han Hu , Zhenda Xie , Zheng Zhang , Yue Cao , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo

Most of recent attention-guided feature masking distillation methods perform knowledge transfer via global teacher attention maps without delving into fine-grained clues. Instead, performing distillation at finer granularity is conducive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhourui Zhang , Jun Li , Jiayan Li , Jianhua Xu

In this paper, we tackle a new problem: how to transfer knowledge from the pre-trained cumbersome yet well-performed CNN-based model to learn a compact Vision Transformer (ViT)-based model while maintaining its learning capacity? Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xu Zheng , Yunhao Luo , Pengyuan Zhou , Lin Wang

With the rapid development of computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) offer the tantalising prospect of unified information processing across visual and textual domains due to the lack of inherent inductive biases in ViTs. ViTs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Gousia Habib , Tausifa Jan Saleem , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik , Brejesh Lall

Cross-modal knowledge distillation (CMKD) refers to the scenario in which a learning framework must handle training and test data that exhibit a modality mismatch, more precisely, training and test data do not cover the same set of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Dino Ienco , Cassio Fraga Dantas

Large-scale 3D vision-language models (VLMs) like LLaVA-3D offer strong spatial reasoning but are difficult to deploy due to high computational costs. We propose a knowledge distillation framework that transfers spatial reasoning from a 7B…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Alaa Asfour , Christopher Indris , Leihan Chen , Tejas Vyas , Guanghui Wang

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

Distilling from the feature maps can be fairly effective for dense prediction tasks since both the feature discriminability and localization priors can be well transferred. However, not every pixel contributes equally to the performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Tao Huang , Yuan Zhang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Jian Cao , Chang Xu

Due to the success of large-scale visual-language pretraining (VLP) models and the widespread use of image-text retrieval in industry areas, it is now critically necessary to reduce the model size and streamline their mobile-device…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Youbo Lei , Feifei He , Chen Chen , Yingbin Mo , Si Jia Li , Defeng Xie , Haonan Lu

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

Semi-supervised learning has been an effective paradigm for leveraging unlabeled data to reduce the reliance on labeled data. We propose CoMatch, a new semi-supervised learning method that unifies dominant approaches and addresses their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Junnan Li , Caiming Xiong , Steven Hoi

We propose a method to infer a dense depth map from a single image, its calibration, and the associated sparse point cloud. In order to leverage existing models (teachers) that produce putative depth maps, we propose an adaptive knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Tian Yu Liu , Parth Agrawal , Allison Chen , Byung-Woo Hong , Alex Wong

Masked image modeling (MIM) methods typically operate in either raw pixel space (reconstructing masked patches) or latent feature space (aligning with a pre-trained teacher). We present MEDiC (Multi-objective Exploration of Distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Konstantinos Georgiou , Maofeng Tang , Hairong Qi

Knowledge distillation (KD) improves the performance of a low-complexity student model with the help of a more powerful teacher. The teacher in KD is a black-box model, imparting knowledge to the student only through its predictions. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sayantan Chowdhury , Ben Liang , Ali Tizghadam , Ilijc Albanese