Student-Oriented Teacher Knowledge Refinement for Knowledge Distillation

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Main Authors: Shen, Chaomin, Huang, Yaomin, Zhu, Haokun, Fan, Jinsong, Zhang, Guixu
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Published: 2024
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author Shen, Chaomin
Huang, Yaomin
Zhu, Haokun
Fan, Jinsong
Zhang, Guixu
author_facet Shen, Chaomin
Huang, Yaomin
Zhu, Haokun
Fan, Jinsong
Zhang, Guixu
contents Knowledge distillation has become widely recognized for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact and more streamlined student network. Traditional knowledge distillation methods primarily follow a teacher-oriented paradigm that imposes the task of learning the teacher's complex knowledge onto the student network. However, significant disparities in model capacity and architectural design hinder the student's comprehension of the complex knowledge imparted by the teacher, resulting in sub-optimal performance. This paper introduces a novel perspective emphasizing student-oriented and refining the teacher's knowledge to better align with the student's needs, thereby improving knowledge transfer effectiveness. Specifically, we present the Student-Oriented Knowledge Distillation (SoKD), which incorporates a learnable feature augmentation strategy during training to refine the teacher's knowledge of the student dynamically. Furthermore, we deploy the Distinctive Area Detection Module (DAM) to identify areas of mutual interest between the teacher and student, concentrating knowledge transfer within these critical areas to avoid transferring irrelevant information. This customized module ensures a more focused and effective knowledge distillation process. Our approach, functioning as a plug-in, could be integrated with various knowledge distillation methods. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the efficacy and generalizability of our method.
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spellingShingle Student-Oriented Teacher Knowledge Refinement for Knowledge Distillation
Shen, Chaomin
Huang, Yaomin
Zhu, Haokun
Fan, Jinsong
Zhang, Guixu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Knowledge distillation has become widely recognized for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact and more streamlined student network. Traditional knowledge distillation methods primarily follow a teacher-oriented paradigm that imposes the task of learning the teacher's complex knowledge onto the student network. However, significant disparities in model capacity and architectural design hinder the student's comprehension of the complex knowledge imparted by the teacher, resulting in sub-optimal performance. This paper introduces a novel perspective emphasizing student-oriented and refining the teacher's knowledge to better align with the student's needs, thereby improving knowledge transfer effectiveness. Specifically, we present the Student-Oriented Knowledge Distillation (SoKD), which incorporates a learnable feature augmentation strategy during training to refine the teacher's knowledge of the student dynamically. Furthermore, we deploy the Distinctive Area Detection Module (DAM) to identify areas of mutual interest between the teacher and student, concentrating knowledge transfer within these critical areas to avoid transferring irrelevant information. This customized module ensures a more focused and effective knowledge distillation process. Our approach, functioning as a plug-in, could be integrated with various knowledge distillation methods. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the efficacy and generalizability of our method.
title Student-Oriented Teacher Knowledge Refinement for Knowledge Distillation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18785