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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) excel in computer vision but are susceptible to adversarial attacks, crafted perturbations designed to mislead predictions. Despite advances in adversarial training, a gap persists between model accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hayat Ullah , Syed Muhammad Talha Zaidi , Arslan Munir

Knowledge distillation, transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a student model, has emerged as a powerful technique in neural machine translation for compressing models or simplifying training targets. Knowledge distillation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jingxuan Wei , Linzhuang Sun , Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo

Casting complex inputs into tractable representations is a critical step across various fields. Diverse embedding models emerge from differences in architectures, loss functions, input modalities and datasets, each capturing unique aspects…

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

We develop a unified theoretical framework for sparse knowledge distillation based on probability-domain softening operators. While the equivalence $p^{1/T} \propto \mathrm{softmax}(z/T)$ is well known, our contribution is an operator-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aaron R. Flouro , Shawn P. Chadwick

Practical autonomous driving systems face two crucial challenges: memory constraints and domain gap issues. In this paper, we present a novel approach to learn domain adaptive knowledge in models with limited memory, thus bestowing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Divya Kothandaraman , Athira Nambiar , Anurag Mittal

Knowledge distillation, i.e., one classifier being trained on the outputs of another classifier, is an empirically very successful technique for knowledge transfer between classifiers. It has even been observed that classifiers learn much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Mary Phuong , Christoph H. Lampert

This paper aims to provide a selective survey about knowledge distillation(KD) framework for researchers and practitioners to take advantage of it for developing new optimized models in the deep neural network field. To this end, we give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jeong-Hoe Ku , JiHun Oh , YoungYoon Lee , Gaurav Pooniwala , SangJeong Lee

Knowledge distillation is an effective paradigm for boosting the performance of pocket-size model, especially when multiple teacher models are available, the student would break the upper limit again. However, it is not economical to train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuan Zhang , Weihua Chen , Yichen Lu , Tao Huang , Xiuyu Sun , Jian Cao

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique used to transfer knowledge from an overparameterized teacher network to a less-parameterized student network, thereby minimizing the incurred performance loss. KD methods can be categorized into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jaeyeon Jang , Young-Ik Kim , Jisu Lim , Hyeonseong Lee

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

It remains very challenging to build a pedestrian detection system for real world applications, which demand for both accuracy and speed. This work presents a novel hierarchical knowledge distillation framework to learn a lightweight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Rui Chen , Haizhou Ai , Chong Shang , Long Chen , Zijie Zhuang

Knowledge distillation is a strategy of training a student network with guide of the soft output from a teacher network. It has been a successful method of model compression and knowledge transfer. However, currently knowledge distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Guangda Ji , Zhanxing Zhu

Adapter-Tuning (AT) method involves freezing a pre-trained model and introducing trainable adapter modules to acquire downstream knowledge, thereby calibrating the model for better adaptation to downstream tasks. This paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiacheng Ruan , Jingsheng Gao , Mingye Xie , Daize Dong , Suncheng Xiang , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

The advent of scalable deep models and large datasets has improved the performance of Neural Machine Translation. Knowledge Distillation (KD) enhances efficiency by transferring knowledge from a teacher model to a more compact student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Heegon Jin , Seonil Son , Jemin Park , Youngseok Kim , Hyungjong Noh , Yeonsoo Lee

While large audio language models excel at tasks like ASR and emotion recognition, they still struggle with complex reasoning due to the modality gap between audio and text as well as the lack of structured intermediate supervision. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Runyan Yang , Yuke Si , Yingying Gao , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Shilei Zhang

Distilling knowledge from a large teacher model to a lightweight one is a widely successful approach for generating compact, powerful models in the semi-supervised learning setting where a limited amount of labeled data is available. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Cenk Baykal , Khoa Trinh , Fotis Iliopoulos , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee

Knowledge distillation is a critical technique to transfer knowledge between models, typically from a large model (the teacher) to a more fine-grained one (the student). The objective function of knowledge distillation is typically the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhaohui Yan , Zixia Jia , Nguyen Bach , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

Knowledge distillation is an effective approach to leverage a well-trained network or an ensemble of them, named as the teacher, to guide the training of a student network. The outputs from the teacher network are used as soft labels for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Helong Zhou , Liangchen Song , Jiajie Chen , Ye Zhou , Guoli Wang , Junsong Yuan , Qian Zhang

Knowledge distillation is one of the most effective methods for model compression. Previous studies have focused on the student model effectively training the predictive distribution of the teacher model. However, during training, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Junseok Lee , Nahoon Kim , Sangyong Lee , Chang-Jae Chun