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Knowledge Distillation is crucial for optimizing face recognition models for deployment in computationally limited settings, such as edge devices. Traditional KD methods, such as Raw L2 Feature Distillation or Feature Consistency loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Durgesh Mishra , Rishabh Uikey

Knowledge distillation is the procedure of transferring "knowledge" from a large model (the teacher) to a more compact one (the student), often being used in the context of model compression. When both models have the same architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde

Knowledge distillation extracts general knowledge from a pre-trained teacher network and provides guidance to a target student network. Most studies manually tie intermediate features of the teacher and student, and transfer knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Mingi Ji , Byeongho Heo , Sungrae Park

Knowledge distillation is an effective way for model compression in deep learning. Given a large model (i.e., teacher model), it aims to improve the performance of a compact model (i.e., student model) by transferring the information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Qi Qian , Hao Li , Juhua Hu

This paper addresses the problem of model compression via knowledge distillation. To this end, we propose a new knowledge distillation method based on transferring feature statistics, specifically the channel-wise mean and variance, from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Jing Yang , Brais Martinez , Adrian Bulat , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Knowledge distillation as a broad class of methods has led to the development of lightweight and memory efficient models, using a pre-trained model with a large capacity (teacher network) to train a smaller model (student network).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Eun Som Jeon , Hongjun Choi , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Existing Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods often align feature information between teacher and student by exploring meaningful feature processing and loss functions. However, due to the difference in feature distributions between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Wang , Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Weilun Feng , Jiarui Zhao , Chengqing Yu , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Yongjun Xu

In recent years, deep learning has spread rapidly, and deeper, larger models have been proposed. However, the calculation cost becomes enormous as the size of the models becomes larger. Various techniques for compressing the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hideki Oki , Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a popular method to train efficient networks ("student") with the help of high-capacity networks ("teacher"). Traditional methods use the teacher's soft logits as extra supervision to train the student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Guo-Hua Wang , Yifan Ge , Jianxin Wu

Deep learning based models are relatively large, and it is hard to deploy such models on resource-limited devices such as mobile phones and embedded devices. One possible solution is knowledge distillation whereby a smaller model (student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Abdolmaged Alkhulaifi , Fahad Alsahli , Irfan Ahmad

Knowledge distillation becomes a de facto standard to improve the performance of small neural networks. Most of the previous works propose to regress the representational features from the teacher to the student in a one-to-one spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Gang Wang

We survey various knowledge distillation (KD) strategies for simple classification tasks and implement a set of techniques that claim state-of-the-art accuracy. Our experiments using standardized model architectures, fixed compute budgets,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Fabian Ruffy , Karanbir Chahal

As a promising approach in model compression, knowledge distillation improves the performance of a compact model by transferring the knowledge from a cumbersome one. The kind of knowledge used to guide the training of the student is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tao Liu , Xi Yang , Chenshu Chen

Most teacher-student frameworks based on knowledge distillation (KD) depend on a strong congruent constraint on instance level. However, they usually ignore the correlation between multiple instances, which is also valuable for knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Baoyun Peng , Xiao Jin , Jiaheng Liu , Shunfeng Zhou , Yichao Wu , Yu Liu , Dongsheng Li , Zhaoning Zhang

Knowledge distillation is a widely applicable technique for training a student neural network under the guidance of a trained teacher network. For example, in neural network compression, a high-capacity teacher is distilled to train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Frederick Tung , Greg Mori

Conventionally, during the knowledge distillation process (e.g. feature distillation), an additional projector is often required to perform feature transformation due to the dimension mismatch between the teacher and the student networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yudong Chen , Sen Wang , Jiajun Liu , Xuwei Xu , Frank de Hoog , Brano Kusy , Zi Huang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common knowledge transfer algorithm used for model compression across a variety of deep learning based natural language processing (NLP) solutions. In its regular manifestations, KD requires access to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Ahmad Rashid , Vasileios Lioutas , Abbas Ghaddar , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh

Knowledge distillation methods compress models by training a student network using the classification outputs of a high quality teacher model, but can fail to effectively transfer the properties of computer vision foundation models from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Evelyn J. Mannix , Liam Hodgkinson , Howard Bondell

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

State-of-the-art CNN based recognition models are often computationally prohibitive to deploy on low-end devices. A promising high level approach tackling this limitation is knowledge distillation, which let small student model mimic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Tao Wang , Li Yuan , Xiaopeng Zhang , Jiashi Feng