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Improving the performance of on-device audio classification models remains a challenge given the computational limits of the mobile environment. Many studies leverage knowledge distillation to boost predictive performance by transferring…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Kwanghee Choi , Martin Kersner , Jacob Morton , Buru Chang

Standard Knowledge Distillation (KD) compresses Large Language Models (LLMs) by optimizing final outputs, yet it typically treats the teacher's intermediate layer's thought process as a black box. While feature-based distillation attempts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Manish Dhakal , Uthman Jinadu , Anjila Budathoki , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Yi Ding

To reduce a model size but retain performance, we often rely on knowledge distillation (KD) which transfers knowledge from a large "teacher" model to a smaller "student" model. However, KD on multimodal datasets such as vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Woojeong Jin , Maziar Sanjabi , Shaoliang Nie , Liang Tan , Xiang Ren , Hamed Firooz

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for code understanding. However, deploying these PLMs in large-scale applications faces practical challenges due to their computational intensity and inference latency.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruiqi Wang , Zezhou Yang , Cuiyun Gao , Xin Xia , Qing Liao

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

Transformer-based reinforcement learning has emerged as a strong candidate for sequential control in residential energy management. In particular, the Decision Transformer can learn effective battery dispatch policies from historical data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pascal Henrich , Jonas Sievers , Maximilian Beichter , Thomas Blank , Ralf Mikut , Veit Hagenmeyer

Current state-of-the-art object detectors are at the expense of high computational costs and are hard to deploy to low-end devices. Knowledge distillation, which aims at training a smaller student network by transferring knowledge from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ruoyu Sun , Fuhui Tang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods are capable of transferring the knowledge encoded in a large and complex teacher into a smaller and faster student. Early methods were usually limited to transferring the knowledge only between the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nikolaos Passalis , Maria Tzelepi , Anastasios Tefas

Knowledge distillation refers to the process of training a compact student network to achieve better accuracy by learning from a high capacity teacher network. Most of the existing knowledge distillation methods direct the student to follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Himalaya Jain , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord

Knowledge distillation is a common technique for improving the performance of a shallow student network by transferring information from a teacher network, which in general, is comparatively large and deep. These teacher networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ishan Mishra , Sethu Vamsi Krishna , Deepak Mishra

Resource-constrained perception systems such as edge computing and vision-for-robotics require vision models to be both accurate and lightweight in computation and memory usage. While knowledge distillation is a proven strategy to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Shengcao Cao , Mengtian Li , James Hays , Deva Ramanan , Yi-Xiong Wang , Liang-Yan Gui

Deep learning achieved great progress recently, however, it is not easy or efficient to further improve its performance by increasing the size of the model. Multi-modal learning can mitigate this challenge by introducing richer and more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cairong Zhao , Yufeng Jin , Zifan Song , Haonan Chen , Duoqian Miao , Guosheng Hu

Knowledge distillation is a potential solution for model compression. The idea is to make a small student network imitate the target of a large teacher network, then the student network can be competitive to the teacher one. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-24 Chong Wang , Xipeng Lan , Yangang Zhang

We present Knowledge Distillation with Meta Learning (MetaDistil), a simple yet effective alternative to traditional knowledge distillation (KD) methods where the teacher model is fixed during training. We show the teacher network can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wangchunshu Zhou , Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley

Knowledge distillation is the technique of compressing a larger neural network, known as the teacher, into a smaller neural network, known as the student, while still trying to maintain the performance of the larger neural network as much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Tianxun Zhou , Keng-Hwee Chiam

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for transferring knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to a smaller student model by aligning their output distributions. However, existing methods often underperform in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Seonghak Kim

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective contrastive knowledge distillation framework that achieves sample-wise logit alignment while preserving semantic consistency. Conventional knowledge distillation approaches exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Wencheng Zhu , Xin Zhou , Pengfei Zhu , Yu Wang , Qinghua Hu

Distillation has shown remarkable success in transferring knowledge from a Large Language Model (LLM) teacher to a student LLM. However, current distillation methods require similar tokenizers between the teacher and the student,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Benjamin Minixhofer , Ivan Vulić , Edoardo Maria Ponti

Despite exciting progress in pre-training for visual-linguistic (VL) representations, very few aspire to a small VL model. In this paper, we study knowledge distillation (KD) to effectively compress a transformer-based large VL model into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Lijuan Wang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

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