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The widespread deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is hindered by the high computational demands, making knowledge distillation (KD) crucial for developing compact smaller ones. However, the conventional KD methods endure the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zengkui Sun , Yijin Liu , Fandong Meng , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

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

Knowledge distillation (KD) involves transferring knowledge from a pre-trained heavy teacher model to a lighter student model, thereby reducing the inference cost while maintaining comparable effectiveness. Prior KD techniques typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jhe-Hao Lin , Yi Yao , Chan-Feng Hsu , Hongxia Xie , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown very promising capabilities in transferring learning representations from large models (teachers) to small models (students). However, as the capacity gap between students and teachers becomes larger,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zengyu Qiu , Xinzhu Ma , Kunlin Yang , Chunya Liu , Jun Hou , Shuai Yi , Wanli Ouyang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for compressing a teacher model to a smaller student model, reducing its inference cost and memory footprint while preserving model capabilities. However, current KD methods for auto-regressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jongwoo Ko , Sungnyun Kim , Tianyi Chen , Se-Young Yun

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

Language model compression through knowledge distillation has emerged as a promising approach for deploying large language models in resource-constrained environments. However, existing methods often struggle to maintain performance when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Joshua Sakthivel Raju , Sanjay S , Jaskaran Singh Walia , Srinivas Raghav , Vukosi Marivate

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive cross-modal capabilities, yet their substantial size poses significant deployment challenges. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising solution for compressing these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Lin Chen , Xiaoke Zhao , Kun Ding , Weiwei Feng , Changtao Miao , Zili Wang , Wenxuan Guo , Ying Wang , Kaiyuan Zheng , Bo Zhang , Zhe Li , Shiming Xiang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework to transfer knowledge from a large-scale teacher to a compact yet well-performing student. Previous KD practices for pre-trained language models mainly transfer knowledge by aligning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lean Wang , Lei Li , Xu Sun

Knowledge distillation with multiple teachers is increasingly used to improve robustness, efficiency, and safety, yet existing approaches rely largely on heuristic or implementation-specific weighting schemes. This paper develops an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Aaron R. Flouro , Shawn P. Chadwick

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique for transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by mimicking. However, distillation by directly aligning the feature maps between teacher and student may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ziwei Liu , Yongtao Wang , Xiaojie Chu

Deep learning has shown its efficacy in extracting useful features to solve various computer vision tasks. However, when the structure of the data is complex and noisy, capturing effective information to improve performance is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Eun Som Jeon , Rahul Khurana , Aishani Pathak , Pavan Turaga

Vision foundation models trained via multi-teacher distillation offer a promising path toward unified visual representations, yet the learning dynamics and data efficiency of such approaches remain underexplored. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Sofian Chaybouti , Sanath Narayan , Yasser Dahou , Phúc H. Lê Khac , Ankit Singh , Ngoc Dung Huynh , Wamiq Reyaz Para , Hilde Kuehne , Hakim Hacid

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

Self-distillation enables language models to learn on-policy from their own trajectories by using the same model as both student and teacher, with the teacher being conditioned on privileged information unavailable to the student. Such…

This paper explores the tasks of leveraging auxiliary modalities which are only available at training to enhance multimodal representation learning through cross-modal Knowledge Distillation (KD). The widely adopted mutual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Mengxi Chen , Linyu Xing , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang

Pre-trained language models have been applied to various NLP tasks with considerable performance gains. However, the large model sizes, together with the long inference time, limit the deployment of such models in real-time applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Haojie Pan , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Yichang Zhang , Yaliang Li , Jun Huang

Knowledge Distillation has shown very promising abil-ity in transferring learned representation from the largermodel (teacher) to the smaller one (student).Despitemany efforts, prior methods ignore the important role ofretaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Li Liu , Qingle Huang , Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang

Large pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks, raising concerns about their deployment in safety-critical applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Lin Luo , Xin Wang , Bojia Zi , Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

This study proposes a method for knowledge distillation (KD) of fine-tuned Large Language Models (LLMs) into smaller, more efficient, and accurate neural networks. We specifically target the challenge of deploying these models on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Ehsan Latif , Luyang Fang , Ping Ma , Xiaoming Zhai