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The representation gap between teacher and student is an emerging topic in knowledge distillation (KD). To reduce the gap and improve the performance, current methods often resort to complicated training schemes, loss functions, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tao Huang , Yuan Zhang , Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Current approaches for Knowledge Distillation (KD) either directly use training data or sample from the training data distribution. In this paper, we demonstrate effectiveness of 'mismatched' unlabeled stimulus to perform KD for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Mandar Kulkarni , Kalpesh Patil , Shirish Karande

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable success due to its large-scale pretraining on general domains, but it still faces challenges when applying it to downstream distant domains that have only scarce training data, which gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shuai Yi , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

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

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge in a teacher-student framework, by providing the predictions of the teacher network to the student network in the training stage to help the student network generalize better. It can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 SeongUk Park , Nojun Kwak

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a valuable technique for compressing large deep learning models into smaller, edge-suitable networks. However, conventional KD frameworks rely on pre-trained high-capacity teacher networks, which introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hongjun Choi , Eun Som Jeon , Ankita Shukla , Pavan Turaga

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been proven to be a simple and effective tool for training compact models. Almost all KD variants for dense prediction tasks align the student and teacher networks' feature maps in the spatial domain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Changyong Shu , Yifan Liu , Jianfei Gao , Zheng Yan , Chunhua Shen

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful approach for compressing a large model into a smaller, more efficient model, particularly beneficial for latency-sensitive applications like recommender systems. However, current KD research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Nikhil Khani , Shuo Yang , Aniruddh Nath , Yang Liu , Pendo Abbo , Li Wei , Shawn Andrews , Maciej Kula , Jarrod Kahn , Zhe Zhao , Lichan Hong , Ed Chi

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been used in image classification for model compression. However, rare studies apply this technology on single-stage object detectors. Focal loss shows that the accumulated errors of easily-classified samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shitao Tang , Litong Feng , Wenqi Shao , Zhanghui Kuang , Wei Zhang , Yimin Chen

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala

Knowledge distillation is an effective method for training small and efficient deep learning models. However, the efficacy of a single method can degenerate when transferring to other tasks, modalities, or even other architectures. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a popular method of transferring knowledge from a large "teacher" model to a small "student" model. Previous work has explored various layer-selection strategies (e.g., forward matching and in-order random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zony Yu , Yuqiao Wen , Lili Mou

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been extensively employed to transfer the knowledge from a large teacher model to the smaller students, where the parameters of the teacher are fixed (or partially) during training. Recent studies show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Jun Rao , Xv Meng , Liang Ding , Shuhan Qi , Dacheng Tao

Semantic segmentation benchmarks in the realm of autonomous driving are dominated by large pre-trained transformers, yet their widespread adoption is impeded by substantial computational costs and prolonged training durations. To lift this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Ruiping Liu , Kailun Yang , Alina Roitberg , Jiaming Zhang , Kunyu Peng , Huayao Liu , Yaonan Wang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are successful in addressing a multitude of vision-language understanding tasks, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA), but their memory and compute requirements remain a concern for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nikolaos Gkalelis , Vasileios Mezaris

Recent studies pointed out that knowledge distillation (KD) suffers from two degradation problems, the teacher-student gap and the incompatibility with strong data augmentations, making it not applicable to training state-of-the-art models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Jihao Liu , Boxiao Liu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu

While Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been recognized as a useful tool in many visual tasks, such as supervised classification and self-supervised representation learning, the main drawback of a vanilla KD framework is its mechanism, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Zhiqiang Shen , Eric Xing

Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to transfer the knowledge of a more capable yet cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model. In recent years, relation-based KD methods have fallen behind, as their instance-matching counterparts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Weijia Zhang , Fei Xie , Weidong Cai , Chao Ma

With the growth of computing power neural machine translation (NMT) models also grow accordingly and become better. However, they also become harder to deploy on edge devices due to memory constraints. To cope with this problem, a common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Yimeng Wu , Peyman Passban , Mehdi Rezagholizade , Qun Liu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses neural networks by learning a small network (student) via transferring knowledge from a pre-trained large network (teacher). Many endeavours have been devoted to the image domain, while few works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ping Li , Chenhao Ping , Wenxiao Wang , Mingli Song