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Knowledge distillation provides an effective way to transfer knowledge via teacher-student learning, where most existing distillation approaches apply a fixed pre-trained model as teacher to supervise the learning of student network. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Kangkai Zhang , Chunhui Zhang , Shikun Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

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

As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to grow in both capability and cost, transferring frontier capabilities into smaller, deployable students has become a central engineering problem, and knowledge distillation remains the dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mingyang Song , Mao Zheng

Pre-trained language models have been applied to various NLP tasks with considerable performance gains. However, the large model sizes, together with the long inference time, limit the deployment of such models in real-time applications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Haojie Pan , Chengyu Wang , Minghui Qiu , Yichang Zhang , Yaliang Li , Jun Huang

Despite the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), they still face challenges related to high inference costs and memory requirements. To address these issues, Knowledge Distillation (KD) has emerged as a popular method for model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Jahyun Koo , Yerin Hwang , Yongil Kim , Taegwan Kang , Hyunkyung Bae , Kyomin Jung

Pretrained language models have led to significant performance gains in many NLP tasks. However, the intensive computing resources to train such models remain an issue. Knowledge distillation alleviates this problem by learning a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Linqing Liu , Huan Wang , Jimmy Lin , Richard Socher , Caiming Xiong

Spatiotemporal forecasting often relies on computationally intensive models to capture complex dynamics. Knowledge distillation (KD) has emerged as a key technique for creating lightweight student models, with recent advances like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenshuo Wang , Yaomin Shen , Yingjie Tan , Yihao Chen

Policy Distillation (PD) has become an effective method to improve deep reinforcement learning tasks. The core idea of PD is to distill policy knowledge from a teacher agent to a student agent. However, the teacher-student framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Xinqiang Yu , Chuanguang Yang , Chengqing Yu , Libo Huang , Zhulin An , Yongjun Xu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model by minimizing the divergence between their output distributions, typically using forward Kullback-Leibler divergence (FKLD) or reverse KLD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Guanghui Wang , Zhiyong Yang , Zitai Wang , Shi Wang , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

This paper explores sequence-level knowledge distillation (KD) of multilingual pre-trained encoder-decoder translation models. We argue that the teacher model's output distribution holds valuable insights for the student, beyond the…

Knowledge distillation addresses the problem of transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model. In this process, we typically have multiple types of knowledge extracted from the teacher model. The problem is to make full use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chenglong Wang , Yi Lu , Yongyu Mu , Yimin Hu , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) for Large Language Models (LLMs) has become increasingly important as models grow in size and complexity. While existing distillation approaches focus on imitating teacher behavior, they often overlook the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yuang Cai , Yuyu Yuan

This research investigates the enhancement of knowledge distillation (KD) processes in pre-trained models, an emerging field in knowledge transfer with significant implications for distributed training and federated learning environments.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Norah Alballa , Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem , Marco Canini

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer a more capable teacher model's knowledge to a lighter student model in order to improve the efficiency of the model, making it faster and more deployable. However, the student model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Eugene Ku

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model with great improvements of the performance of the student model. Therefore, the student network can replace the teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jinhong Lin , Zhaoyang Li

LLMs are increasingly explored for bundle generation, thanks to their reasoning capabilities and knowledge. However, deploying large-scale LLMs introduces significant efficiency challenges, primarily high computational costs during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Kaidong Feng , Zhu Sun , Jie Yang , Hui Fang , Xinghua Qu , Wenyuan Liu

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely used to improve the test accuracy of a "student" network, by training it to mimic the soft probabilities of a trained "teacher" network. Yet, it has been shown in recent work that, despite being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Vaishnavh Nagarajan , Aditya Krishna Menon , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Hossein Mobahi , Sanjiv Kumar

Knowledge distillation (KD) is commonly used to construct synthetic data for training non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models. However, there exists a discrepancy on low-frequency words between the distilled and the original data,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Liang Ding , Longyue Wang , Xuebo Liu , Derek F. Wong , Dacheng Tao , Zhaopeng Tu

This study presents an innovative dynamic weighting knowledge distillation (KD) framework tailored for efficient Earth observation (EO) image classification (IC) in resource-constrained settings. Utilizing EfficientViT and MobileViT as…

Medical foundation models pre-trained on large-scale datasets have shown powerful versatile performance. However, when adapting medical foundation models for specific medical scenarios, it remains the inevitable challenge due to the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Siyuan Du , Yuhang Zhou , Haolin Li , Jiangchao Yao , Haishuai Wang , Hui Lin , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang