English
Related papers

Related papers: FERD: Fairness-Enhanced Data-Free Robustness Disti…

200 papers

Collaborative fairness is a crucial challenge in federated learning. However, existing approaches often overlook a practical yet complex form of heterogeneity: imbalanced covariate shift. We provide a theoretical analysis of this setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Tianrun Yu , Jiaqi Wang , Haoyu Wang , Mingquan Lin , Han Liu , Nelson S. Yee , Fenglong Ma

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a simple and successful method to transfer knowledge from a teacher to a student model solely based on functional activity. However, current KD has a few shortcomings: it has recently been shown that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Arne F. Nix , Max F. Burg , Fabian H. Sinz

Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) is a novel task that aims to train high-performance student models using only the pre-trained teacher network without original training data. Most of the existing DFKD methods rely heavily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Jie Zhang , Dingkang Yang , Zuhao Ge , Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Yunquan Sun , Wenqiang Zhang , Lizhe Qi

Human-aligned deep learning models exhibit behaviors consistent with human values, such as robustness, fairness, and honesty. Transferring these behavioral properties to models trained on different tasks or data distributions remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Galen Pogoncheff , Michael Beyeler

Adversarial Training is a practical approach for improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks. Although bringing reliable robustness, the performance towards clean examples is negatively affected after…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Shiji Zhao , Xizhe Wang , Xingxing Wei

Federated Unsupervised Learning (FUL) aims to learn expressive representations in federated and self-supervised settings. The quality of representations learned in FUL is usually determined by uniformity, a measure of how uniformly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hung-Chieh Fang , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Irwin King , Yifei Zhang

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

Dataset distillation is an advanced technique aimed at compressing datasets into significantly smaller counterparts, while preserving formidable training performance. Significant efforts have been devoted to promote evaluation accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yifan Wu , Jiawei Du , Ping Liu , Yuewei Lin , Wei Xu , Wenqing Cheng

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, making their adversarial robustness a crucial concern. While adversarial knowledge distillation has shown promise in transferring robustness from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuqi Li , Junhao Dong , Chuanguang Yang , Shiping Wen , Piotr Koniusz , Tingwen Huang , Yingli Tian , Yew-Soon Ong

Data heterogeneity among Federated Learning (FL) users poses a significant challenge, resulting in reduced global model performance. The community has designed various techniques to tackle this issue, among which Knowledge Distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Momin Ahmad Khan , Yasra Chandio , Fatima Muhammad Anwar

In this paper, we introduce DistDD, a novel approach within the federated learning framework that reduces the need for repetitive communication by distilling data directly on clients' devices. Unlike traditional federated learning that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Peiran Wang , Haohan Wang

Discrete diffusion models excel at visual synthesis but rely on slow, iterative decoding. Existing single-step distillation methods attempt to bypass this bottleneck, either by training auxiliary score networks that effectively double…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chaoyang Wang , Yunhai Tong

Due to the point cloud's irregular and unordered geometry structure, conventional knowledge distillation technology lost a lot of information when directly used on point cloud tasks. In this paper, we propose Feature Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 YuXing Lee , Wei Wu

Diffusion models achieve high-quality sample generation at the cost of a lengthy multistep inference procedure. To overcome this, diffusion distillation techniques produce student generators capable of matching or surpassing the teacher in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yanke Song , Jonathan Lorraine , Weili Nie , Karsten Kreis , James Lucas

Most current federated learning frameworks are modeled as static processes, ignoring the dynamic characteristics of the learning system. Under the limited communication budget of the central server, the flexible model architecture of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yiting Zheng , Bohan Lin , Jinqian Chen , Jihua Zhu

Federated learning is a distributed paradigm that aims at training models using samples distributed across multiple users in a network while keeping the samples on users' devices with the aim of efficiency and protecting users privacy. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Amirhossein Reisizadeh , Farzan Farnia , Ramtin Pedarsani , Ali Jadbabaie

Although adversarial training (AT) has proven effective in enhancing the model's robustness, the recently revealed issue of fairness in robustness has not been well addressed, i.e. the robust accuracy varies significantly among different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yanghao Zhang , Tianle Zhang , Ronghui Mu , Xiaowei Huang , Wenjie Ruan

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train a global model while keeping local data decentralized. Data heterogeneity (non-IID) across clients has imposed significant challenges to FL, which makes local models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yuting He , Yiqiang Chen , XiaoDong Yang , Hanchao Yu , Yi-Hua Huang , Yang Gu

To protect clients' right to be forgotten in federated learning, federated unlearning aims to remove the data contribution of leaving clients from the global learned model. While current studies mainly focused on enhancing unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Siyuan Wen , Meng Zhang , Yang Yang , Ningning Ding

Adversarial Robustness Distillation (ARD) is a novel method to boost the robustness of small models. Unlike general adversarial training, its robust knowledge transfer can be less easily restricted by the model capacity. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuzheng Wang , Zhaoyu Chen , Dingkang Yang , Yang Liu , Siao Liu , Wenqiang Zhang , Lizhe Qi