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Temperature plays a pivotal role in moderating label softness in the realm of knowledge distillation (KD). Traditional approaches often employ a static temperature throughout the KD process, which fails to address the nuanced complexities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Yukang Wei , Yu Bai

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for training a compact model with the supervision of another large model, which could effectively improve the performance. Previous methods mainly focus on two aspects: 1) training the student to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tiancheng Wen , Shenqi Lai , Xueming Qian

Most existing distillation methods ignore the flexible role of the temperature in the loss function and fix it as a hyper-parameter that can be decided by an inefficient grid search. In general, the temperature controls the discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Zheng Li , Xiang Li , Lingfeng Yang , Borui Zhao , Renjie Song , Lei Luo , Jun Li , Jian Yang

Knowledge distillation (KD) enhances the performance of a student network by allowing it to learn the knowledge transferred from a teacher network incrementally. Existing methods dynamically adjust the temperature to enable the student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhengbo Zhang , Yuxi Zhou , Jia Gong , Jun Liu , Zhigang Tu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at transferring the knowledge of a well-performed neural network (the {\it teacher}) to a weaker one (the {\it student}). A peculiar phenomenon is that a more accurate model doesn't necessarily teach better,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Xin-Chun Li , Wen-Shu Fan , Shaoming Song , Yinchuan Li , Bingshuai Li , Yunfeng Shao , De-Chuan Zhan

Knowledge distillation~(KD) has been proved effective for compressing large-scale pre-trained language models. However, existing methods conduct KD statically, e.g., the student model aligns its output distribution to that of a selected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Lei Li , Yankai Lin , Shuhuai Ren , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

As a technique to bridge logit matching and probability distribution matching, temperature scaling plays a pivotal role in knowledge distillation (KD). Conventionally, temperature scaling is applied to both teacher's logits and student's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Kaixiang Zheng , En-Hui Yang

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a high-capacity teacher to a compact student by matching their predictive distributions, with temperature scaling serving as a central mechanism for smoothing teacher predictions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hoang-Chau Luong , Nghia Van Vo , Kaiqi Zhao , Lingwei Chen

Knowledge Distillation is a technique which aims to utilize dark knowledge to compress and transfer information from a vast, well-trained neural network (teacher model) to a smaller, less capable neural network (student model) with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Fahad Rahman Amik , Ahnaf Ismat Tasin , Silvia Ahmed , M. M. Lutfe Elahi , Nabeel Mohammed

In knowledge distillation, the knowledge from the teacher model is often too complex for the student model to thoroughly process. However, good teachers in real life always simplify complex material before teaching it to students. Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mengyang Yuan , Bo Lang , Fengnan Quan

A central idea of knowledge distillation is to expose relational structure embedded in the teacher's weights for the student to learn, which is often facilitated using a temperature parameter. Despite its widespread use, there remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Logan Frank , Jim Davis

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) 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

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a new method for transferring knowledge of a structure under training to another one. The typical application of KD is in the form of learning a small model (named as a student) by soft labels produced by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Sajjad Abbasi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

Knowledge distillation (KD) has gained much attention due to its effectiveness in compressing large-scale pre-trained models. In typical KD methods, the small student model is trained to match the soft targets generated by the big teacher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yitao Liu , Tianxiang Sun , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised KD and on-policy KD, are adversely impacted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenda Xu , Rujun Han , Zifeng Wang , Long T. Le , Dhruv Madeka , Lei Li , William Yang Wang , Rishabh Agarwal , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain

Despite the success of Deep Learning (DL), the deployment of modern DL models requiring large computational power poses a significant problem for resource-constrained systems. This necessitates building compact networks that reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Akshay Kulkarni , Navid Panchi , Sharath Chandra Raparthy , Shital Chiddarwar

Significant memory and computational requirements of large deep neural networks restrict their application on edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is a prominent model compression technique for deep neural networks in which the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Aref Jafari , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Pranav Sharma , Ali Ghodsi

Knowledge distillation is a technique to imitate a performance that a deep learning model has, but reduce the size on another model. It applies the outputs of a model to train another model having comparable accuracy. These two distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Kazuhiro Matsuyama , Usman Anjum , Satoko Matsuyama , Tetsuo Shoda , Justin Zhan
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