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We address the challenge of producing trustworthy and accurate compact models for edge devices. While Knowledge Distillation (KD) has improved model compression in terms of achieving high accuracy performance, calibration of these compact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ibtihel Amara , Nazanin Sepahvand , Brett H. Meyer , Warren J. Gross , James J. Clark

Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the prominent techniques for model compression. In this method, the knowledge of a large network (teacher) is distilled into a model (student) with usually significantly fewer parameters. KD tries to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Ali Ghodsi

Sequence-level knowledge distillation (SLKD) is a model compression technique that leverages large, accurate teacher models to train smaller, under-parameterized student models. Why does pre-processing MT data with SLKD help us train…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Mitchell A. Gordon , Kevin Duh

Knowledge Distillation (KD) based methods adopt the one-way Knowledge Transfer (KT) scheme in which training a lower-capacity student network is guided by a pre-trained high-capacity teacher network. Recently, Deep Mutual Learning (DML)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Anbang Yao , Dawei Sun

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student by aligning their predictive distributions. However, conventional KD formulations - typically based on Kullback-Leibler divergence - assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ondrej Tybl , Lukas Neumann

Large Language Models (LLMs) have displayed remarkable performances across various complex tasks by leveraging Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. Recently, studies have proposed a Knowledge Distillation (KD) approach, reasoning distillation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hojae Lee , Junho Kim , SangKeun Lee

Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a promising technique in deep learning, typically employed to enhance a compact student network through learning from their high-performance but more complex teacher variant. When applied in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Yuxuan Jiang , Chen Feng , Fan Zhang , David Bull

Despite its breakthrough in classification problems, Knowledge distillation (KD) to recommendation models and ranking problems has not been studied well in the previous literature. This dissertation is devoted to developing knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-22 SeongKu Kang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for compressing large models into smaller, more efficient student models that can be deployed on devices with limited computational resources. Among various KD methods, Relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Chen-Yu Liu , Kuan-Cheng Chen , Keisuke Murota , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Enrico Rinaldi

Knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly deemed as an effective model compression technique in which a compact model (student) is trained under the supervision of a larger pretrained model or an ensemble of models (teacher). Various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Fahad Sarfraz , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

The use of large transformer-based models such as BERT, GPT, and T5 has led to significant advancements in natural language processing. However, these models are computationally expensive, necessitating model compression techniques that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Apoorv Dankar , Adeem Jassani , Kartikaeya Kumar

The model reduction problem that eases the computation costs and latency of complex deep learning architectures has received an increasing number of investigations owing to its importance in model deployment. One promising method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Wei-Chun Chen , Chia-Che Chang , Chien-Yu Lu , Che-Rung Lee

Despite the recent works on knowledge distillation (KD) have achieved a further improvement through elaborately modeling the decision boundary as the posterior knowledge, their performance is still dependent on the hypothesis that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Junjie Liu , Dongchao Wen , Hongxing Gao , Wei Tao , Tse-Wei Chen , Kinya Osa , Masami Kato

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large pre-trained teacher network to a compact and efficient student network, making it suitable for deployment on resource-limited media terminals. However, traditional KD methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Xinlei Huang , Jialiang Tang , Xubin Zheng , Jinjia Zhou , Wenxin Yu , Ning Jiang

Knowledge Distillation (KD), which transfers the knowledge of a well-trained large model (teacher) to a small model (student), has become an important area of research for practical deployment of recommender systems. Recently, Relaxed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Youngjune Lee , Kee-Eung Kim

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved notable performance in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing with various applications in both academia and industry. However, with recent advancements in DNNs and…

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as a pivotal methodology for transferring advanced capabilities from leading proprietary LLMs, such as GPT-4, to their open-source counterparts like LLaMA and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaohan Xu , Ming Li , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Reynold Cheng , Jinyang Li , Can Xu , Dacheng Tao , Tianyi Zhou

This work studies knowledge distillation (KD) for large language models (LLMs) through preference optimization. We propose a reward-guided imitation learning framework for sequential KD, formulating a min-max optimization problem between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Jia

Large language models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning through chain of thought (CoT) prompting. Recently, there has been a growing interest in transferring these reasoning abilities from LLMs to smaller…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Hongzhan Chen , Siyue Wu , Xiaojun Quan , Rui Wang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang

Large language models and deep neural networks achieve strong performance but suffer from reliability issues and high computational cost. This thesis proposes a unified framework based on spectral geometry and random matrix theory to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Davide Ettori