The paper introduces Socialized Detector Learning (SDL), a framework for improving heterogeneous, category-specialized object detectors by exchanging knowledge within a detector society. It proposes Trajectory-Guided and Reciprocal Distillation (TGRD), which estimates transfer difficulty, constructs a carrier trajectory, and performs progressive consolidation and reciprocal transfer. Experiments on MS COCO show that carriers outperform simultaneous aggregation by 2.6 AP, and reciprocal detectors achieve high AP on previously unsupported categories while staying close to expert performance.
arXiv:2504.10214v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Pretrained model-based incremental object detection (PTMIOD) leverages the rich detection priors of pretrained detectors to learn new categories in...
arXiv:2607. 13452v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incremental object detection (IOD) aims to extend detectors to new categories while retaining previously acquired knowledge.
The paper introduces Cross-Scale Channel-wise Knowledge Distillation (CSCWD), a training-time framework that transfers high‑resolution spatial representations from a YOLO11m‑P2 teacher to a lightweight YOLO11n student without changing the student’s inference architecture. CSCWD aligns teacher P2 features with student P3 while also applying same‑scale distillation at deeper pyramid levels, yielding a 2.92‑point mAP@0.5 improvement over the baseline and a 2.09‑point gain over same‑scale distillation alone. In zero‑shot tests on DUT‑Anti‑UAV and on a Raspberry Pi 5, the 2.58‑million‑parameter student reaches 50.32% mAP@0.5 at 82.32 ms latency (12.15 fps) with negligible runtime or memory increase.
arXiv:2608.21937v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Incremental Object Detection (IOD) aims to enable detectors to continuously learn novel categories while preserving previously acquired knowledge. Howe...
arXiv:2607. 24731v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) adapts diffusion models by querying a teacher along trajectories generated by the current student, but how it should behave under classifier-free guidance (CFG), a default component of modern diffusion systems, remains poorly understood.
The paper introduces CrossUAV, a benchmark for joint object detection and instance segmentation in UAV imagery, and proposes Cross-Granularity Socialized Collaboration (CGSC), a framework that regulates hierarchical interactions between tasks. CGSC progressively activates cross-task exchanges and adaptively adjusts interaction strength based on task contribution, aiming to reduce interference and exploit complementary coarse- and fine-grained knowledge. Experiments show consistent improvements on both detection and segmentation tasks, supporting the effectiveness of hierarchical dynamic interaction for cross-granularity collaboration.
arXiv:2608.21099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal object detection is essential for robust scene understanding in challenging conditions, including low-light and adverse environments. Rec...
The paper investigates drift detection in deep learning models, showing that sharing a deep encoder alone does not eliminate confounding in task-comparison scores. By introducing a conditional two‑discriminator discrepancy into the embedding space, the authors create a two‑axis gate that remains stable under input rotations and accurately tracks label‑permutation drift. This approach outperforms traditional exchange or novelty triggers, achieving high AUROC in distinguishing semantic novelty from photometric shift across multiple backbones and datasets.
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...
arXiv:2609.16637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient perception is central to robotic systems operating under constrained computation, memory, and latency budgets. Knowledge transfer from larg...
arXiv:2607. 14703v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multiple instance learning (MIL) has become the main paradigm for whole-slide image (WSI) analysis in computational pathology.
The paper introduces TALON, a Task‑Adaptive LoRA‑Teacher framework for Few‑Shot Class‑Incremental Learning. TALON assigns a dedicated LoRA‑Teacher to each incremental task, then distills the frozen teachers into a single LoRA‑Student via Ensemble Knowledge Transfer, using a semantic‑guided weighting scheme to reduce forgetting and overfitting. Experiments on four FSCIL benchmarks show that TALON matches or surpasses state‑of‑the‑art accuracy while using up to 33× fewer deployment parameters and cutting inference time by 41.7%.