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Incremental learning methods can learn new classes continually by distilling knowledge from the last model (as a teacher model) to the current model (as a student model) in the sequentially learning process. However, these methods cannot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Longhui Yu , Zhenyu Weng , Yuqing Wang , Yuesheng Zhu

We present Knowledge Distillation with Meta Learning (MetaDistil), a simple yet effective alternative to traditional knowledge distillation (KD) methods where the teacher model is fixed during training. We show the teacher network can learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Wangchunshu Zhou , Canwen Xu , Julian McAuley

Recent advances in knowledge distillation (KD) have enabled smaller student models to approach the performance of larger teacher models. However, popular methods such as supervised KD and on-policy KD, are adversely impacted by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Wenda Xu , Rujun Han , Zifeng Wang , Long T. Le , Dhruv Madeka , Lei Li , William Yang Wang , Rishabh Agarwal , Chen-Yu Lee , Tomas Pfister

Knowledge distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from large teacher models to compact student models, enabling efficient deployment on resource constrained devices. While diverse KD methods, including response based, feature based, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yinxi Tian , Changwu Huang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for model compression, enabling the transfer of knowledge from large teacher networks to compact student models. However, traditional knowledge distillation methods treat all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Aakash Gore , Anoushka Dey , Aryan Mishra

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

Benefiting from well-trained deep neural networks (DNNs), model compression have captured special attention for computing resource limited equipment, especially edge devices. Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the widely used compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Jinyin Chen , Xiaoming Zhao , Haibin Zheng , Xiao Li , Sheng Xiang , Haifeng Guo

Knowledge distillation (KD) is widely used for training a compact model with the supervision of another large model, which could effectively improve the performance. Previous methods mainly focus on two aspects: 1) training the student to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tiancheng Wen , Shenqi Lai , Xueming Qian

How can we efficiently compress a model while maintaining its performance? Knowledge Distillation (KD) is one of the widely known methods for model compression. In essence, KD trains a smaller student model based on a larger teacher model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Ikhyun Cho , U Kang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a promising yet challenging model compression technique that transfers rich learning representations from a well-performing but cumbersome teacher model to a compact student model. Previous methods for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Simiao Li , Yun Zhang , Wei Li , Hanting Chen , Wenjia Wang , Bingyi Jing , Shaohui Lin , Jie Hu

As a promising solution for model compression, knowledge distillation (KD) has been applied in recommender systems (RS) to reduce inference latency. Traditional solutions first train a full teacher model from the training data, and then…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Gang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Fuli Feng , Sheng Zhou , Xiangnan He

Unlike existing knowledge distillation methods focus on the baseline settings, where the teacher models and training strategies are not that strong and competing as state-of-the-art approaches, this paper presents a method dubbed DIST to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tao Huang , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a popular technique to transfer knowledge from a teacher model or ensemble to a student model. Its success is generally attributed to the privileged information on similarities/consistency between the class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Zhen Huang , Xu Shen , Jun Xing , Tongliang Liu , Xinmei Tian , Houqiang Li , Bing Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for code understanding. However, deploying these PLMs in large-scale applications faces practical challenges due to their computational intensity and inference latency.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Ruiqi Wang , Zezhou Yang , Cuiyun Gao , Xin Xia , Qing Liao

In the surveillance and defense domain, multi-target detection and classification (MTD) is considered essential yet challenging due to heterogeneous inputs from diverse data sources and the computational complexity of algorithms designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ngoc Tuyen Do , Tri Nhu Do

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an efficient approach to transfer the knowledge from a large "teacher" network to a smaller "student" network. Traditional KD methods require lots of labeled training samples and a white-box teacher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Kien Do , Svetha Venkatesh

We propose ClassroomKD, a novel multi-mentor knowledge distillation framework inspired by classroom environments to enhance knowledge transfer between the student and multiple mentors with different knowledge levels. Unlike traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shalini Sarode , Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan , Tahira Shehzadi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Recently, it was shown that the role of the teacher in knowledge distillation (KD) is to provide the student with an estimate of the true Bayes conditional probability density (BCPD). Notably, the new findings propose that the student's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Shayan Mohajer Hamidi , Xizhen Deng , Renhao Tan , Linfeng Ye , Ahmed Hussein Salamah

The burgeoning complexity of contemporary deep learning models, while achieving unparalleled accuracy, has inadvertently introduced deployment challenges in resource-constrained environments. Knowledge distillation, a technique aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar

Deep learning models, particularly recurrent neural networks and their variants, such as long short-term memory, have significantly advanced time series data analysis. These models capture complex, sequential patterns in time series,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Nilushika Udayangani , Kishor Nandakishor , Marimuthu Palaniswami