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Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at improving the performance of a low-capacity student model by inheriting knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model. Previous KD methods typically train a student by minimizing a task-related loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Junjie Yan , Liang Wan , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Despite the success of Deep Learning (DL), the deployment of modern DL models requiring large computational power poses a significant problem for resource-constrained systems. This necessitates building compact networks that reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Akshay Kulkarni , Navid Panchi , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Shital Chiddarwar

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful technique for transferring knowledge between neural network models, where a pre-trained teacher model is used to facilitate the training of the target student model. However, the availability of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Xucong Wang , Pengchao Han , Lei Guo

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has made remarkable progress in the last few years and become a popular paradigm for model compression and knowledge transfer. However, almost all existing KD algorithms are data-driven, i.e., relying on a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Gongfan Fang , Jie Song , Chengchao Shen , Xinchao Wang , Da Chen , Mingli Song

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for training a compact model with the supervision of another large model, which could effectively improve the performance. Previous methods mainly focus on two aspects: 1) training the student to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tiancheng Wen , Shenqi Lai , Xueming Qian

Knowledge distillation is typically conducted by training a small model (the student) to mimic a large and cumbersome model (the teacher). The idea is to compress the knowledge from the teacher by using its output probabilities as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Gustavo Aguilar , Yuan Ling , Yu Zhang , Benjamin Yao , Xing Fan , Chenlei Guo

Originally proposed as a method for knowledge transfer from one model to another, some recent studies have suggested that knowledge distillation (KD) is in fact a form of regularization. Perhaps the strongest argument of all for this new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Md Arafat Sultan

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown great promise in transferring knowledge from larger teacher models to smaller student models. However, existing KD strategies for large language models often minimize output distributions between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Yuncheng Song , Liang Ding , Changtong Zan , Shujian Huang

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised KD and on-policy KD, are adversely impacted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenda Xu , Rujun Han , Zifeng Wang , Long T. Le , Dhruv Madeka , Lei Li , William Yang Wang , Rishabh Agarwal , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been extensively employed to transfer the knowledge from a large teacher model to the smaller students, where the parameters of the teacher are fixed (or partially) during training. Recent studies show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Jun Rao , Xv Meng , Liang Ding , Shuhan Qi , Dacheng Tao

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 is a challenging model lightweight task for scenarios in which the original dataset is not available. Previous methods require a lot of extra computational costs to update one or more generators and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuzheng Wang , Zuhao Ge , Zhaoyu Chen , Xian Liu , Chuangjia Ma , Yunquan Sun , Lizhe Qi

Knowledge distillation (KD) shows a bright promise as a powerful regularization strategy to boost generalization ability by leveraging learned sample-level soft targets. Yet, employing a complex pre-trained teacher network or an ensemble of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yiqing Shen , Liwu Xu , Yuzhe Yang , Yaqian Li , Yandong Guo

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a high-capacity teacher to a compact student by matching their predictive distributions, with temperature scaling serving as a central mechanism for smoothing teacher predictions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hoang-Chau Luong , Nghia Van Vo , Kaiqi Zhao , Lingwei Chen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a prominent neural model compression technique that heavily relies on teacher network predictions to guide the training of a student model. Considering the ever-growing size of pre-trained language models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Ivan Kobyzev , Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Tianda Li , Alan Do-Omri , Peng Lu , Pascal Poupart , Ali Ghodsi

Deep learning for Information Retrieval (IR) requires a large amount of high-quality query-document relevance labels, but such labels are inherently sparse. Label smoothing redistributes some observed probability mass over unobserved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jihyuk Kim , Minsoo Kim , Seung-won Hwang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for transferring knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to a smaller student model by aligning their output distributions. However, existing methods often underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Seonghak Kim

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model with great improvements of the performance of the student model. Therefore, the student network can replace the teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jinhong Lin , Zhaoyang Li

Existing knowledge distillation methods typically work by imparting the knowledge of output logits or intermediate feature maps from the teacher network to the student network, which is very successful in multi-class single-label learning.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Penghui Yang , Ming-Kun Xie , Chen-Chen Zong , Lei Feng , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Sheng-Jun Huang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is generally considered as a technique for performing model compression and learned-label smoothing. However, in this paper, we study and investigate the KD approach from a new perspective: we study its efficacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Nandan Kumar Jha , Rajat Saini , Sparsh Mittal