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Recommender Systems (RS) have employed knowledge distillation which is a model compression technique training a compact student model with the knowledge transferred from a pre-trained large teacher model. Recent work has shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 SeongKu Kang , Junyoung Hwang , Wonbin Kweon , Hwanjo Yu

State-of-the-art CNN based recognition models are often computationally prohibitive to deploy on low-end devices. A promising high level approach tackling this limitation is knowledge distillation, which let small student model mimic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Tao Wang , Li Yuan , Xiaopeng Zhang , Jiashi Feng

Previous Knowledge Distillation based efficient image retrieval methods employs a lightweight network as the student model for fast inference. However, the lightweight student model lacks adequate representation capacity for effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yi Xie , Huaidong Zhang , Xuemiao Xu , Jianqing Zhu , Shengfeng He

Knowledge distillation is a popular technique to transfer knowledge from large teacher models to a small student model. Typically, the student learns to imitate the teacher by minimizing the KL divergence of its output distribution with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Rongzhi Zhang , Jiaming Shen , Tianqi Liu , Jialu Liu , Michael Bendersky , Marc Najork , Chao Zhang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims to transfer knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student model. While contrastive learning has shown promise in self-supervised learning by creating discriminative representations, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

As deep learning models grow in complexity and the volume of training data increases, reducing storage and computational costs becomes increasingly important. Dataset distillation addresses this challenge by synthesizing a compact set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhe Li , Sarah Cechnicka , Cheng Ouyang , Katharina Breininger , Peter Schüffler , Bernhard Kainz

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

A popular approach to model compression is to train an inexpensive student model to mimic the class probabilities of a highly accurate but cumbersome teacher model. Surprisingly, this two-step knowledge distillation process often leads to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-21 Tri Dao , Govinda M Kamath , Vasilis Syrgkanis , Lester Mackey

We study a new paradigm of knowledge transfer that aims at encoding graph topological information into graph neural networks (GNNs) by distilling knowledge from a teacher GNN model trained on a complete graph to a student GNN model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , Junchi Yan

Advances in self-distillation have shown that when knowledge is distilled from a teacher to a student using the same deep learning (DL) architecture, the student performance can surpass the teacher particularly when the network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Muhammad Haseeb Aslam , Clara Martinez , Marco Pedersoli , Alessandro Koerich , Ali Etemad , Eric Granger

Denoising Diffusion models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in image generation. However, generating high-quality samples requires a large number of iterations. Knowledge distillation for diffusion models is an effective method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Shengzhe Zhou , Zejian Lee , Shengyuan Zhang , Lefan Hou , Changyuan Yang , Guang Yang , Zhiyuan Yang , Lingyun Sun

Among the neural network compression techniques, knowledge distillation is an effective one which forces a simpler student network to mimic the output of a larger teacher network. However, most of such model distillation methods focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Yuhu Shan

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

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

Knowledge Distillation is crucial for optimizing face recognition models for deployment in computationally limited settings, such as edge devices. Traditional KD methods, such as Raw L2 Feature Distillation or Feature Consistency loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Durgesh Mishra , Rishabh Uikey

Knowledge distillation is considered as a training and compression strategy in which two neural networks, namely a teacher and a student, are coupled together during training. The teacher network is supposed to be a trustworthy predictor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Peyman Passban , Yimeng Wu , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Qun Liu

Knowledge distillation can be a cost-effective technique to distill knowledge in Large Language Models, if the teacher output logits can be pre-computed and cached. However, successfully applying this to pre-training remains largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Anshumann , Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Akhil Kedia , Jinwoo Ahn , Taehwak Kwon , Kangwook Lee , Haejun Lee , Joohyung Lee

In recent years, deep learning has spread rapidly, and deeper, larger models have been proposed. However, the calculation cost becomes enormous as the size of the models becomes larger. Various techniques for compressing the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hideki Oki , Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one proposed solution to large model sizes and slow inference speed in semantic segmentation. In our research we identify 25 proposed distillation loss terms from 14 publications in the last 4 years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Onno Niemann , Christopher Vox , Thorben Werner

Knowledge distillation allows smaller neural networks to emulate the performance of larger, teacher models with reduced computational demands. Traditional methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) often necessitate extensive fine-tuning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Tyler McDonald , Ali Emami