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Quantization, knowledge distillation, and magnitude pruning are among the most popular methods for neural network compression in NLP. Independently, these methods reduce model size and can accelerate inference, but their relative benefit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Rajiv Movva , Jinhao Lei , Shayne Longpre , Ajay Gupta , Chris DuBois

While Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been recognized as a useful tool in many visual tasks, such as supervised classification and self-supervised representation learning, the main drawback of a vanilla KD framework is its mechanism, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Zhiqiang Shen , Eric Xing

Multimodal Dataset Distillation (MDD) seeks to condense large-scale image-text datasets into compact surrogates while retaining their effectiveness for cross-modal learning. Despite recent progress, existing MDD approaches often suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xin Zhang , Ziruo Zhang , Jiawei Du , Zuozhu Liu , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Dataset Distillation is a newly emerging area that aims to distill large datasets into much smaller and highly informative synthetic ones to accelerate training and reduce storage. Among various dataset distillation methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Justin Cui , Ruochen Wang , Si Si , Cho-Jui Hsieh

An increasing number of datasets sharing similar domains for semantic segmentation have been published over the past few years. But despite the growing amount of overall data, it is still difficult to train bigger and better models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anton Backhaus , Thorsten Luettel , Mirko Maehlisch

Deep neural networks (DNNs) continue to make significant advances, solving tasks from image classification to translation or reinforcement learning. One aspect of the field receiving considerable attention is efficiently executing deep…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Antonio Polino , Razvan Pascanu , Dan Alistarh

Despite exciting progress in pre-training for visual-linguistic (VL) representations, very few aspire to a small VL model. In this paper, we study knowledge distillation (KD) to effectively compress a transformer-based large VL model into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Zhiyuan Fang , Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Lijuan Wang , Yezhou Yang , Zicheng Liu

The exponential growth of Large Language Models (LLMs) continues to highlight the need for efficient strategies to meet ever-expanding computational and data demands. This survey provides a comprehensive analysis of two complementary…

Huge amount of data is the key of the success of deep learning, however, redundant information impairs the generalization ability of the model and increases the burden of calculation. Dataset Distillation (DD) compresses the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Hangyang Kong , Wenbo Zhou , Xuxiang He , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding

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

Dataset distillation compresses a large training set into a small synthetic set that preserves downstream training utility. While most existing methods target training networks from scratch, modern visual transfer learning often uses frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bincheng Peng , Guang Li , Ping Liu , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

The generalization and learning speed of a multi-class neural network can often be significantly improved by using soft targets that are a weighted average of the hard targets and the uniform distribution over labels. Smoothing the labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Rafael Müller , Simon Kornblith , Geoffrey Hinton

Model distillation aims to distill the knowledge of a complex model into a simpler one. In this paper, we consider an alternative formulation called dataset distillation: we keep the model fixed and instead attempt to distill the knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tongzhou Wang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba , Alexei A. Efros

In this paper, we formulate the knowledge distillation (KD) as a conditional generative problem and propose the \textit{Generative Distribution Distillation (GenDD)} framework. A naive \textit{GenDD} baseline encounters two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Jiequan Cui , Beier Zhu , Qingshan Xu , Xiaogang Xu , Pengguang Chen , Xiaojuan Qi , Bei Yu , Hanwang Zhang , Richang Hong

With the exponential increase in image data, training an image restoration model is laborious. Dataset distillation is a potential solution to this problem, yet current distillation techniques are a blank canvas in the field of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhuoran Zheng , Xin Su , Chen Wu , Xiuyi Jia

Dataset Condensation (DC) aims to obtain a condensed dataset that allows models trained on the condensed dataset to achieve performance comparable to those trained on the full dataset. Recent DC approaches increasingly focus on encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Bowen Yuan , Yuxia Fu , Zijian Wang , Yadan Luo , Zi Huang

Replay-based continual learning (CL) methods assume that models trained on a small subset can also effectively minimize the empirical risk of the complete dataset. These methods maintain a memory buffer that stores a sampled subset of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Wenyang Liao , Quanziang Wang , Yichen Wu , Renzhen Wang , Deyu Meng

The concept of knowledge distillation (KD) describes the training of a student model from a teacher model and is a widely adopted technique in deep learning. However, it is still not clear how and why distillation works. Previous studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Giulia Lanzillotta , Felix Sarnthein , Gil Kur , Thomas Hofmann , Bobby He

State-of-the-art trainable machine translation evaluation metrics like xCOMET achieve high correlation with human judgment but rely on large encoders (up to 10.7B parameters), making them computationally expensive and inaccessible to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Daniil Larionov , Mikhail Seleznyov , Vasiliy Viskov , Alexander Panchenko , Steffen Eger

Self-supervised learning (SSL) models like WavLM can be effectively utilized when building speaker diarization systems but are often large and slow, limiting their use in resource constrained scenarios. Previous studies have explored…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Jiangyu Han , Federico Landini , Johan Rohdin , Anna Silnova , Mireia Diez , Jan Cernocky , Lukas Burget