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Augmentation and knowledge distillation (KD) are well-established techniques employed in audio classification tasks, aimed at enhancing performance and reducing model sizes on the widely recognized Audioset (AS) benchmark. Although both…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Heinrich Dinkel , Yongqing Wang , Zhiyong Yan , Junbo Zhang , Yujun Wang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is used to enhance automatic speaker verification performance by ensuring consistency between large teacher networks and lightweight student networks at the embedding level or label level. However, the…

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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

Knowledge distillation establishes a learning paradigm that leverages both data supervision and teacher guidance. However, determining the optimal balance between learning from data and learning from the teacher is challenging, as some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jingchen Sun , Shaobo Han , Deep Patel , Wataru Kohno , Can Jin , Changyou Chen

Recent research on knowledge distillation has increasingly focused on logit distillation because of its simplicity, effectiveness, and versatility in model compression. In this paper, we introduce Refined Logit Distillation (RLD) to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Wujie Sun , Defang Chen , Siwei Lyu , Genlang Chen , Chun Chen , Can Wang

While large vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong long-context understanding, their prevalent small branches fail on linguistics-photography alignment for a limited window size. We discover that knowledge distillation improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Haoyi Zhou , Shuo Li , Tianyu Chen , Qi Song , Chonghan Gao , Jianxin Li

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a fundamental technique for compressing large language models (LLMs) into compact, efficient student models. However, existing white-box KD methods mainly focus on balancing ground truth and student-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Lingyuan Liu , Mengxiang Zhang

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as a pivotal methodology for transferring advanced capabilities from leading proprietary LLMs, such as GPT-4, to their open-source counterparts like LLaMA and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiaohan Xu , Ming Li , Chongyang Tao , Tao Shen , Reynold Cheng , Jinyang Li , Can Xu , Dacheng Tao , Tianyi Zhou

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a powerful paradigm for compressing large language models (LLMs), whose effectiveness depends on intertwined choices of divergence direction, optimization strategy, and data regime. We break down the design of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Wenhong Zhu , Ruobing Xie , Rui Wang , Pengfei Liu

Speech emotion recognition (SER) performance deteriorates significantly in the presence of noise, making it challenging to achieve competitive performance in noisy conditions. To this end, we propose a multi-level knowledge distillation…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yang Liu , Haoqin Sun , Geng Chen , Qingyue Wang , Zhen Zhao , Xugang Lu , Longbiao Wang

The joint utilization of diverse data sources for medical imaging segmentation has emerged as a crucial area of research, aiming to address challenges such as data heterogeneity, domain shift, and data quality discrepancies. Integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Eddardaa B. Loussaief , Mohammed Ayad , Domenc Puig , Hatem A. Rashwan

Large pre-trained language models often struggle to incorporate new domain-specific terminology when fine-tuned on small, specialized corpora. In this work, we address the challenge of vocabulary expansion in frozen LLMs by introducing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Max Rehman Linder

Over the past year, the emergence of transfer learning with large-scale language models (LM) has led to dramatic performance improvements across a broad range of natural language understanding tasks. However, the size and memory footprint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , George Han , Celine Liang

Large language models (LLMs) provide a promising way for accurate session-based recommendation (SBR), but they demand substantial computational time and memory. Knowledge distillation (KD)-based methods can alleviate these issues by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yingpeng Du , Zhu Sun , Ziyan Wang , Haoyan Chua , Jie Zhang , Yew-Soon Ong

Dense visual prediction tasks, such as detection and segmentation, are crucial for time-critical applications (e.g., autonomous driving and video surveillance). While deep models achieve strong performance, their efficiency remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

Aligning small language models (SLMs) with human values typically involves distilling preference knowledge from large language models (LLMs). However, existing distillation methods model preference knowledge in teacher LLMs by comparing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yanggan Gu , Junzhuo Li , Sirui Huang , Xin Zou , Zhenghua Li , Xuming Hu

We introduce the problem of continual distillation learning (CDL) in order to use knowledge distillation (KD) to improve prompt-based continual learning (CL) models. The CDL problem is valuable to study since the use of a larger vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Qifan Zhang , Yunhui Guo , Yu Xiang

Knowledge distillation (KD) has become an important technique for model compression and knowledge transfer. In this work, we first perform a comprehensive analysis of the knowledge transferred by different KD methods. We demonstrate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Fei Ding , Yin Yang , Hongxin Hu , Venkat Krovi , Feng Luo

Knowledge distillation in machine learning is the process of transferring knowledge from a large model called the teacher to a smaller model called the student. Knowledge distillation is one of the techniques to compress the large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Durga Prasad Ganta , Himel Das Gupta , Victor S. Sheng

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…

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