arXiv:2607. 27054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) enables a compact student model to learn from a powerful teacher and has become an effective paradigm for model compression.
By Fengming Yu, Haiwei Pan, Kejia Zhang, Chunling Chen, Jian Guan, Baoying Ma
arXiv:2609.13199v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge distillation aims to improve the performance of lightweight student models by transferring knowledge from larger and more powerful teacher mo...
By Dawen Jiang, Zhishu Shen, Zeyu Liu, Tiehua Zhang
arXiv:2609.22566v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to compress high-performance teacher LLMs into lightweight students. However, distilled students often exhibit subst...
By Dileesha Kannangara, Sanghamitra Dutta
arXiv:2606. 12171v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) and mixup have proven effective at inducing smoothness in class boundaries; KD captures inherent class relationships in probability distributions, and mixup enforces them through convex combinations of inputs.
By Jos\'e Medina, Paul Honeine, Abdelaziz Bensrhair, Amnir Hadachi
arXiv:2605. 31191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We investigate how teacher-student capacity relationships modulate knowledge distillation (KD) effectiveness in ResNet-based image classification on CIFAR-10.
By Umut Onur Yasar
arXiv:2608. 08294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation trains a smaller student to match the outputs of a larger teacher.
By Abhinand Balachandran, Praveen Prashant
arXiv:2606. 00798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter compression of class-conditional diffusion models reveals an underexplored limitation in output-level distillation: the unconditional score branch remains unsupervised, leaving the classifier-free guidance gap underdetermined in the student.
By Abdullah Al Shafi, Kazi Saeed Alam, Sk Imran Hossain, Engelbert Mephu Nguifo
arXiv:2608. 00129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely utilized technique for transferring knowledge from a large model (the teacher) to a smaller model (the student).
By Tiancong Cheng, Ying Zhang, Zhiwen Yu, Yifang Yin, Bin Guo
arXiv:2606. 25488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) is widely used to obtain compact models for efficient inference in resource-constrained environments.
By Yifan Wu, Yiqi Wang, Xichen Ye, Wenjing Yan, Xiaoqiang Li, Cheng Jin, Xiangyu Yue, Weizhong Zhang
arXiv:2609.36734v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) trains a smaller-capacity student model to imitate a larger-capacity teacher model by matching output distributions, implic...
By Ayan Sengupta, Vaibhav Seth, Tanmoy Chakraborty
arXiv:2606. 03052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a powerful tool for model compression, yet the precise mechanisms by which student models acquire feature representations remain underexplored.
By Seungu Kang, Songkuk Kim
arXiv:2609.23561v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deploying efficient neural networks is essential in resource-constrained environments, yet compact models often sacrifice interpretability - a critical...
By Aleks Czufarow, Ihor Babin