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ASKD-Whisper: Adaptive Self-knowledge Distillation for Efficient and Low-Latency Automatic Speech Recognition

arXiv:2601. 19919v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is one of the most effective paradigms for compressing large-scale foundation models into deployable architectures.

arXiv AI
Aug 11

DeltaPrompts: Escaping the Zero-Delta Trap in Multimodal Distillation

arXiv:2605. 15532v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Distillation enables compact Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to obtain strong reasoning capabilities, yet the prompts driving this process are typically chosen via simple heuristics or aggregated from off-the-shelf datasets.

By Jaehun Jung, Hyunwoo Kim, Brandon Cui, Ximing Lu, David Acuna, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Yejin Choi
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 17

RT-SEMamba: Real-Time Speech Enhancement Mamba via Progressive Knowledge Distillation

RT-SEMamba is a fully causal speech enhancement model that uses causal time‑frequency Mamba blocks instead of Transformer‑based architectures, allowing efficient long‑form inference with a fixed‑size recurrent state. The authors introduce a progressive knowledge distillation strategy that compresses an 8‑layer teacher into a single‑layer student by jointly distilling spectral outputs and intermediate representations. On the Voicebank‑DEMAND benchmark, the 8‑layer model achieves 3.32 PESQ under a 25 ms latency constraint, while the distilled 1‑layer student improves from 3.06 to 3.18 PESQ, maintains the same steady‑state real‑time factor, and runs 2.64× faster than the teacher.

By Rong Chao, Sung-Feng Huang, Moreno La Quatra, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Wen-Huang Cheng, Szu-Wei Fu, Yu Tsao
arXiv AI
Jul 3

DemoPSD: Disagreement-Modulated Policy Self-Distillation

arXiv:2607. 02502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a practical method for training large language models (LLMs) to reason, where a single model acts as both the teacher and the student with different levels of information access.

By Yunhe Li, Hao Shi, Wenhao Liu, Mengzhe Ruan, Hanxu Hou, Zhongxiang Dai, Shuang Qiu, Linqi Song
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 2

DKL: Decoupled Knowledge Learning for Instruction-Tuned Language Models

The paper introduces DKL, a method that decouples knowledge learning from instruction tuning in language models. Instead of fine‑tuning the instruction‑tuned model directly, DKL first extends pre‑training on a base model to embed new knowledge, then merges these weights into the instruction‑tuned model, preserving its instruction‑following abilities. Experiments show DKL raises RAG accuracy from 54.17 % to 79.26 % on retrieval failures, outperforming prior methods while using far less training data.