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Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to distill the knowledge of a cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities among categories provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Li Yuan , Francis E. H. Tay , Guilin Li , Tao Wang , Jiashi Feng

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a well-known training paradigm in deep neural networks where knowledge acquired by a large teacher model is transferred to a small student. KD has proven to be an effective technique to significantly improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Philip de Rijk , Lukas Schneider , Marius Cordts , Dariu M. Gavrila

Efficient deployment of deep neural networks on resource-constrained devices demands advanced compression techniques that preserve accuracy and interoperability. This paper proposes a machine learning framework that augments Knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 David E. Hernandez , Jose Ramon Chang , Torbjörn E. M. Nordling

Instance-aware embeddings predicted by deep neural networks have revolutionized biomedical instance segmentation, but its resource requirements are substantial. Knowledge distillation offers a solution by transferring distilled knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Xiaoyu Liu , Yueyi Zhang , Zhiwei Xiong , Wei Huang , Bo Hu , Xiaoyan Sun , Feng Wu

Knowledge distillation involves transferring knowledge from large, cumbersome teacher models to more compact student models. The standard approach minimizes the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the probabilistic outputs of a teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model compression algorithm that helps transfer the knowledge of a large neural network into a smaller one. Even though KD has shown promise on a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Tianda Li , Ahmad Rashid , Aref Jafari , Pranav Sharma , Ali Ghodsi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Knowledge distillation (KD) represents a vital mechanism to transfer expertise from complex teacher networks to efficient student models. However, in decentralized or secure AI ecosystems, privacy regulations and proprietary interests often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tri-Nhan Vo , Dang Nguyen , Trung Le , Kien Do , Sunil Gupta

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

Object detection has achieved remarkable accuracy through deep learning, yet these improvements often come with increased computational cost, limiting deployment on resource-constrained devices. Knowledge Distillation (KD) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mahdi Golizadeh , Nassibeh Golizadeh , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Hossein Shirazi

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for compressing a teacher model to reduce its inference cost and memory footprint, by training a smaller student model. However, current KD methods for auto-regressive sequence models suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Rishabh Agarwal , Nino Vieillard , Yongchao Zhou , Piotr Stanczyk , Sabela Ramos , Matthieu Geist , Olivier Bachem

Typical technique in knowledge distillation (KD) is regularizing the learning of a limited capacity model (student) by pushing its responses to match a powerful model's (teacher). Albeit useful especially in the penultimate layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ada Gorgun , Yeti Z. Gurbuz , A. Aydin Alatan

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

Very low-resolution face recognition is challenging due to the serious loss of informative facial details in resolution degradation. In this paper, we propose a generative-discriminative representation distillation approach that combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Junzheng Zhang , Weijia Guo , Bochao Liu , Ruixin Shi , Yong Li , Shiming Ge

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

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 used in image classification for model compression. However, rare studies apply this technology on single-stage object detectors. Focal loss shows that the accumulated errors of easily-classified samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shitao Tang , Litong Feng , Wenqi Shao , Zhanghui Kuang , Wei Zhang , Yimin Chen

Monocular depth estimation is challenging due to its inherent ambiguity and ill-posed nature, yet it is quite important to many applications. While recent works achieve limited accuracy by designing increasingly complicated networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zizhang Wu , Zhuozheng Li , Zhi-Gang Fan , Yunzhe Wu , Xiaoquan Wang , Rui Tang , Jian Pu

Camera-based temporal 3D object detection has shown impressive results in autonomous driving, with offline models improving accuracy by using future frames. Knowledge distillation (KD) can be an appealing framework for transferring rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haowen Zheng , Hu Zhu , Lu Deng , Weihao Gu , Yang Yang , Yanyan Liang

Existing online knowledge distillation approaches either adopt the student with the best performance or construct an ensemble model for better holistic performance. However, the former strategy ignores other students' information, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Shaojie Li , Mingbao Lin , Yan Wang , Yongjian Wu , Yonghong Tian , Ling Shao , Rongrong Ji

Low-resolution face recognition is a challenging task due to the missing of informative details. Recent approaches based on knowledge distillation have proven that high-resolution clues can well guide low-resolution face recognition via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ruixin Shi , Weijia Guo , Shiming Ge