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Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across diverse domains, yet their enormous computational and memory requirements hinder deployment in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge distillation offers a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hao Zhang , Zhibin Zhang , Guangxin Wu , Wanyi Ning , Jiafeng Guo , Xueqi Cheng

While knowledge distillation has become a mature field for compressing large language models (LLMs) into smaller ones by aligning their outputs or internal representations, the distillation of LLM-based agents, which involve planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jiahao Qiu , Xinzhe Juan , Yimin Wang , Ling Yang , Xuan Qi , Tongcheng Zhang , Jiacheng Guo , Yifu Lu , Zixin Yao , Hongru Wang , Shilong Liu , Xun Jiang , Liu Leqi , Mengdi Wang

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

Self-supervised learning has achieved remarkable success in learning visual representations from clean data, yet remains challenging when clean observations are sparse or not available at all. In this paper, we demonstrate that pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Konstantinos Alexis , Giorgos Giannopoulos , Dimitrios Gunopulos

Advances in large language models (LLMs) significantly enhance reasoning capabilities but their deployment is restricted in resource-constrained scenarios. Knowledge distillation addresses this by transferring knowledge from powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zhenyu Lei , Zhen Tan , Song Wang , Yaochen Zhu , Zihan Chen , Yushun Dong , Jundong Li

Knowledge distillation is a method of transferring the knowledge from a pretrained complex teacher model to a student model, so a smaller network can replace a large teacher network at the deployment stage. To reduce the necessity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Mingi Ji , Seungjae Shin , Seunghyun Hwang , Gibeom Park , Il-Chul Moon

Many text mining models are constructed by fine-tuning a large deep pre-trained language model (PLM) in downstream tasks. However, a significant challenge nowadays is maintaining performance when we use a lightweight model with limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Weifeng Jiang , Qianren Mao , Chenghua Lin , Jianxin Li , Ting Deng , Weiyi Yang , Zheng Wang

Recently, efficient Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention as a solution to their high computational complexity, making them more practical for real-world applications. In this regard, the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Jiwan Kim , Kibum Kim , Sangwoo Seo , Chanyoung Park

We address the problem of learning new classes for semantic segmentation models from few examples, which is challenging because of the following two reasons. Firstly, it is difficult to learn from limited novel data to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chengjia Jiang , Tao Wang , Sien Li , Jinyang Wang , Shirui Wang , Antonios Antoniou

Training a small student network with the guidance of a larger teacher network is an effective way to promote the performance of the student. Despite the different types, the guided knowledge used to distill is always kept unchanged for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiangfan Han , Mengya Gao , Yujie Wang , Quanquan Li , Hongsheng Li , Xiaogang Wang

Many natural language processing tasks can be modeled into structured prediction and solved as a search problem. In this paper, we distill an ensemble of multiple models trained with different initialization into a single model. In addition…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Yijia Liu , Wanxiang Che , Huaipeng Zhao , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Continual learning, involving sequential training on diverse tasks, often faces catastrophic forgetting. While knowledge distillation-based approaches exhibit notable success in preventing forgetting, we pinpoint a limitation in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Zenglin Shi , Pei Liu , Tong Su , Yunpeng Wu , Kuien Liu , Yu Song , Meng Wang

Sequential recommendation models user interests based on historical behaviors to provide personalized recommendation. Previous sequential recommendation algorithms primarily employ neural networks to extract features of user interests,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Li Li , Mingyue Cheng , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Domain adaptation is crucial in many real-world applications where the distribution of the training data differs from the distribution of the test data. Previous Deep Learning-based approaches to domain adaptation need to be trained jointly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Sebastian Ruder , Parsa Ghaffari , John G. Breslin

Knowledge distillation is the procedure of transferring "knowledge" from a large model (the teacher) to a more compact one (the student), often being used in the context of model compression. When both models have the same architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde

In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved remarkable accuracy in computer vision tasks. With inference time being a crucial factor, particularly in dense prediction tasks such as semantic segmentation, knowledge distillation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Amir M. Mansourian , Rozhan Ahmadi , Shohreh Kasaei

Vision Language Models (VLMs), pre-trained on large-scale image-text datasets, enable zero-shot predictions for unseen data but may underperform on specific unseen tasks. Continual learning (CL) can help VLMs effectively adapt to new data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hongsheng Zhang , Zhong Ji , Jingren Liu , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han

Discrete diffusion models (DDMs) have shown powerful generation ability for discrete data modalities like text and molecules. However, their practical application is hindered by inefficient sampling, requiring a large number of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Feiyang Fu , Tongxian Guo , Zhaoqiang Liu

Deep learning methods usually require a large amount of training data and lack interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel knowledge distillation and model interpretation framework for medical image classification that jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Thanh Nguyen-Duc , He Zhao , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung

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