arXiv:2603. 15553v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The landscape of self-supervised learning (SSL) is currently dominated by generative approaches (e.
By Scott C. Lowe, Anthony Fuller, Sageev Oore, Evan Shelhamer, Graham W. Taylor
arXiv:2402. 14035v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation from foundation models to compact domain models is challenging due to substantial gaps in capacity, architecture, and modality.
By Zichang Liu, Qingyun Liu, Yuening Li, Liang Liu, Anshumali Shrivastava, Shuchao Bi, Lichan Hong, Ed H. Chi, Zhe Zhao
arXiv:2608. 09287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data-Free Knowledge Distillation (DFKD) transfers knowledge from a pretrained teacher model to a compact student model by synthesizing semantically informative data, eliminating the need for access to the original training dataset.
By Xuewan He, Tong Chu, Zihan Cheng, Yuchen Su, Qianxin Xia, Guoming Lu, Jielei Wang, Wen Li
arXiv:2607. 27372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deep learning revolution, kicked off by AlexNet, taught us that end-to-end training beats decomposing a problem into hand-designed stages.
By Alexi Gladstone, Heng Ji, Yilun Du
arXiv:2604. 03873v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Black-box knowledge distillation for large language models presents a strict trade-off.
By Xiwen Chen, Jingjing Wang, Wenhui Zhu, Peijie Qiu, Xuanzhao Dong, Yueyue Deng, Hejian Sang, Zhipeng Wang, Alborz Geramifard, Feng Luo
arXiv:2601. 07155v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely adopted technique for transferring knowledge from large language models to smaller student models; however, conventional supervised KD often suffers from a distribution mismatch between training and inference.
By Ijun Jang, Jewon Yeom, Juan Yeo, Hyunggyu Lim, Taesup Kim