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Recently, multi-modal content generation has attracted lots of attention from researchers by investigating the utilization of visual instruction tuning based on large language models (LLMs). To enhance the performance and generalization…

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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 (KD) is an effective model compression technique where a compact student network is taught to mimic the behavior of a complex and highly trained teacher network. In contrast, Mutual Learning (ML) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Usma Niyaz , Deepti R. Bathula

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in joint vision-language understanding, but their large scale poses significant challenges for deployment in resource-constrained scenarios. Knowledge Distillation (KD) offers…

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Text image machine translation (TIMT) has been widely used in various real-world applications, which translates source language texts in images into another target language sentence. Existing methods on TIMT are mainly divided into two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Cong Ma , Yaping Zhang , Mei Tu , Yang Zhao , Yu Zhou , Chengqing Zong

Knowledge distillation has attracted a great deal of interest recently to compress pre-trained language models. However, existing knowledge distillation methods suffer from two limitations. First, the student model simply imitates the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Siyue Wu , Hongzhan Chen , Xiaojun Quan , Qifan Wang , Rui 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

Despite exciting progress in pre-training for visual-linguistic (VL) representations, very few aspire to a small VL model. In this paper, we study knowledge distillation (KD) to effectively compress a transformer-based large VL model into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Lijuan Wang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

Online HD map construction is a fundamental task in autonomous driving systems, aiming to acquire semantic information of map elements around the ego vehicle based on real-time sensor inputs. Recently, several approaches have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ziyang Yan , Ruikai Li , Zhiyong Cui , Bohan Li , Han Jiang , Yilong Ren , Aoyong Li , Zhenning Li , Sijia Wen , Haiyang Yu

Soft prompt learning methods are effective for adapting vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks. Nevertheless, empirical evidence reveals a tendency of existing methods that they overfit seen classes and exhibit degraded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yang Chen , Shuai Fu , Yu Zhang

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

Visual retrieval aims to search for the most relevant visual items, e.g., images and videos, from a candidate gallery with a given query item. Accuracy and efficiency are two competing objectives in retrieval tasks. Instead of crafting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Zhe Ma , Jianfeng Dong , Shouling Ji , Zhenguang Liu , Xuhong Zhang , Zonghui Wang , Sifeng He , Feng Qian , Xiaobo Zhang , Lei Yang

Dataset distillation compresses large training sets into compact synthetic datasets while preserving downstream performance. As modern systems increasingly operate on paired vision-language inputs, multimodal distillation must preserve…

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Recent neural methods for vehicle routing problems always train and test the deep models on the same instance distribution (i.e., uniform). To tackle the consequent cross-distribution generalization concerns, we bring the knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Jieyi Bi , Yining Ma , Jiahai Wang , Zhiguang Cao , Jinbiao Chen , Yuan Sun , Yeow Meng Chee

Multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) endeavors to predict future observations given historical data, playing a crucial role in time series data management systems. With advancements in large language models (LLMs), recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Chenxi Liu , Hao Miao , Qianxiong Xu , Shaowen Zhou , Cheng Long , Yan Zhao , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao

This paper addresses the challenges of high computational cost and slow inference in deploying large language models. It proposes a distillation strategy guided by multiple teacher models. The method constructs several teacher models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiandong Meng , Yan Wu , Yexin Tian , Xin Hu , Tianze Kang , Junliang Du

Knowledge distillation is a key technique for transferring the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) into smaller, more efficient student models. Existing distillation approaches often overlook two critical factors: the learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jincheng Cao , Fanzhi Zeng , Leqi Liu , Aryan Mokhtari

Transformer-based architectures have become the de-facto standard models for diverse vision tasks owing to their superior performance. As the size of the models continues to scale up, model distillation becomes extremely important in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Cheng Han , Qifan Wang , Sohail A. Dianat , Majid Rabbani , Raghuveer M. Rao , Yi Fang , Qiang Guan , Lifu Huang , Dongfang Liu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a pivotal technique for neural network compression and performance enhancement. Most KD methods aim to transfer dark knowledge from a cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wenqi Niu , Yingchao Wang , Guohui Cai , Hanpo Hou

Alignment techniques enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate outputs that align with human preferences and play a crucial role in their effectiveness. However, their impact often diminishes when applied to Small Language Models…

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