Most existing distillation methods ignore the flexible role of the temperature in the loss function and fix it as a hyper-parameter that can be decided by an inefficient grid search. In general, the temperature controls the discrepancy between two distributions and can faithfully determine the difficulty level of the distillation task. Keeping a constant temperature, i.e., a fixed level of task difficulty, is usually sub-optimal for a growing student during its progressive learning stages. In this paper, we propose a simple curriculum-based technique, termed Curriculum Temperature for Knowledge Distillation (CTKD), which controls the task difficulty level during the student's learning career through a dynamic and learnable temperature. Specifically, following an easy-to-hard curriculum, we gradually increase the distillation loss w.r.t. the temperature, leading to increased distillation difficulty in an adversarial manner. As an easy-to-use plug-in technique, CTKD can be seamlessly integrated into existing knowledge distillation frameworks and brings general improvements at a negligible additional computation cost. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-100, ImageNet-2012, and MS-COCO demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Our code is available at https://github.com/zhengli97/CTKD.

最先进的蒸馏方法主要基于中间层的深层特征，而logit蒸馏的重要性被极大地忽略了。为了提供研究逻辑蒸馏的新观点，我们将经典的KD损失重新分为两个部分，即目标类知识蒸馏（TCKD）和非目标类知识蒸馏（NCKD）。我们凭经验研究并证明了这两个部分的影响：TCKD转移有关训练样本“难度”的知识，而NCKD是Logit蒸馏起作用的重要原因。更重要的是，我们揭示了经典的KD损失是一种耦合的配方，该配方抑制了NCKD的有效性，并且（2）限制了平衡这两个部分的灵活性。为了解决这些问题，我们提出了脱钩的知识蒸馏（DKD），使TCKD和NCKD能够更有效，更灵活地发挥其角色。与基于功能的复杂方法相比，我们的DKD可相当甚至更好的结果，并且在CIFAR-100，ImageNet和MS-Coco数据集上具有更好的培训效率，用于图像分类和对象检测任务。本文证明了Logit蒸馏的巨大潜力，我们希望它对未来的研究有所帮助。该代码可从https://github.com/megvii-research/mdistiller获得。

知识蒸馏（KD）在将学习表征从大型模型（教师）转移到小型模型（学生）方面表现出非常有希望的能力。但是，随着学生和教师之间的容量差距变得更大，现有的KD方法无法获得更好的结果。我们的工作表明，“先验知识”对KD至关重要，尤其是在应用大型老师时。特别是，我们提出了动态的先验知识（DPK），该知识将教师特征的一部分作为特征蒸馏之前的先验知识。这意味着我们的方法还将教师的功能视为“输入”，而不仅仅是``目标''。此外，我们根据特征差距动态调整训练阶段的先验知识比率，从而引导学生在适当的困难中。为了评估所提出的方法，我们对两个图像分类基准（即CIFAR100和Imagenet）和一个对象检测基准（即MS Coco）进行了广泛的实验。结果表明，在不同的设置下，我们方法在性能方面具有优势。更重要的是，我们的DPK使学生模型的表现与教师模型的表现呈正相关，这意味着我们可以通过应用更大的教师进一步提高学生的准确性。我们的代码将公开用于可重复性。

知识蒸馏（KD）已广泛发展并增强了各种任务。经典的KD方法将KD损失添加到原始的跨熵（CE）损失中。我们尝试分解KD损失，以探索其与CE损失的关系。令人惊讶的是，我们发现它可以被视为CE损失和额外损失的组合，其形式与CE损失相同。但是，我们注意到额外的损失迫使学生学习教师绝对概率的相对可能性。此外，这两个概率的总和是不同的，因此很难优化。为了解决这个问题，我们修改了配方并提出分布式损失。此外，我们将教师的目标输出作为软目标，提出软损失。结合软损失和分布式损失，我们提出了新的KD损失（NKD）。此外，我们将学生的目标输出稳定，将其视为无需教师的培训的软目标，并提出了无教师的新KD损失（TF-NKD）。我们的方法在CIFAR-100和Imagenet上实现了最先进的性能。例如，以Resnet-34为老师，我们将Imagenet TOP-1的RESNET18的TOP-1精度从69.90％提高到71.96％。在没有教师的培训中，Mobilenet，Resnet-18和Swintransformer-tiny的培训占70.04％，70.76％和81.48％，分别比基线高0.83％，0.86％和0.30％。该代码可在https://github.com/yzd-v/cls_kd上找到。

知识蒸馏（KD）是压缩边缘设备深层分类模型的有效工具。但是，KD的表现受教师和学生网络之间较大容量差距的影响。最近的方法已诉诸KD的多个教师助手（TA）设置，该设置依次降低了教师模型的大小，以相对弥合这些模型之间的尺寸差距。本文提出了一种称为“知识蒸馏”课程专家选择的新技术，以有效地增强在容量差距问题下对紧凑型学生的学习。该技术建立在以下假设的基础上：学生网络应逐渐使用分层的教学课程来逐步指导，因为它可以从较低（较高的）容量教师网络中更好地学习（硬）数据样本。具体而言，我们的方法是一种基于TA的逐渐的KD技术，它每个输入图像选择单个教师，该课程是基于通过对图像进行分类的难度驱动的课程的。在这项工作中，我们凭经验验证了我们的假设，并对CIFAR-10，CIFAR-100，CINIC-10和Imagenet数据集进行了严格的实验，并在类似VGG的模型，Resnets和WideresNets架构上显示出提高的准确性。

知识蒸馏已成为获得紧凑又有效模型的重要方法。为实现这一目标，培训小型学生模型以利用大型训练有素的教师模型的知识。然而，由于教师和学生之间的能力差距，学生的表现很难达到老师的水平。关于这个问题，现有方法建议通过代理方式减少教师知识的难度。我们认为这些基于代理的方法忽视了教师的知识损失，这可能导致学生遇到容量瓶颈。在本文中，我们从新的角度来缓解能力差距问题，以避免知识损失的目的。我们建议通过对抗性协作学习建立一个更有力的学生，而不是牺牲教师的知识。为此，我们进一步提出了一种逆势协作知识蒸馏（ACKD）方法，有效提高了知识蒸馏的性能。具体来说，我们用多个辅助学习者构建学生模型。同时，我们设计了对抗的对抗性协作模块（ACM），引入注意机制和对抗的学习，以提高学生的能力。四个分类任务的广泛实验显示了拟议的Ackd的优越性。

In real teaching scenarios, an excellent teacher always teaches what he (or she) is good at but the student is not. This method gives the student the best assistance in making up for his (or her) weaknesses and becoming a good one overall. Enlightened by this, we introduce the approach to the knowledge distillation framework and propose a data-based distillation method named ``Teaching what you Should Teach (TST)''. To be specific, TST contains a neural network-based data augmentation module with the priori bias, which can assist in finding what the teacher is good at while the student are not by learning magnitudes and probabilities to generate suitable samples. By training the data augmentation module and the generalized distillation paradigm in turn, a student model that has excellent generalization ability can be created. To verify the effectiveness of TST, we conducted extensive comparative experiments on object recognition (CIFAR-100 and ImageNet-1k), detection (MS-COCO), and segmentation (Cityscapes) tasks. As experimentally demonstrated, TST achieves state-of-the-art performance on almost all teacher-student pairs. Furthermore, we conduct intriguing studies of TST, including how to solve the performance degradation caused by the stronger teacher and what magnitudes and probabilities are needed for the distillation framework.

知识蒸馏是通过知识转移模型压缩的有效稳定的方法。传统知识蒸馏（KD）是将来自大型和训练有素的教师网络的知识转移到小型学生网络，这是一种单向过程。最近，已经提出了深度相互学习（DML）来帮助学生网络协同和同时学习。然而，据我们所知，KD和DML从未在统一的框架中共同探索，以解决知识蒸馏问题。在本文中，我们调查教师模型在KD中支持更值得信赖的监督信号，而学生则在DML中捕获教师的类似行为。基于这些观察，我们首先建议将KD与DML联合在统一的框架中。此外，我们提出了一个半球知识蒸馏（SOKD）方法，有效提高了学生和教师的表现。在这种方法中，我们在DML中介绍了同伴教学培训时尚，以缓解学生的模仿困难，并利用KD训练有素的教师提供的监督信号。此外，我们还显示我们的框架可以轻松扩展到基于功能的蒸馏方法。在CiFAR-100和Imagenet数据集上的广泛实验证明了所提出的方法实现了最先进的性能。

Unlike existing knowledge distillation methods focus on the baseline settings, where the teacher models and training strategies are not that strong and competing as state-of-the-art approaches, this paper presents a method dubbed DIST to distill better from a stronger teacher. We empirically find that the discrepancy of predictions between the student and a stronger teacher may tend to be fairly severer. As a result, the exact match of predictions in KL divergence would disturb the training and make existing methods perform poorly. In this paper, we show that simply preserving the relations between the predictions of teacher and student would suffice, and propose a correlation-based loss to capture the intrinsic inter-class relations from the teacher explicitly. Besides, considering that different instances have different semantic similarities to each class, we also extend this relational match to the intra-class level. Our method is simple yet practical, and extensive experiments demonstrate that it adapts well to various architectures, model sizes and training strategies, and can achieve state-of-the-art performance consistently on image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation tasks. Code is available at: https://github.com/hunto/DIST_KD .

Knowledge distillation (KD) has gained a lot of attention in the field of model compression for edge devices thanks to its effectiveness in compressing large powerful networks into smaller lower-capacity models. Online distillation, in which both the teacher and the student are learning collaboratively, has also gained much interest due to its ability to improve on the performance of the networks involved. The Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence ensures the proper knowledge transfer between the teacher and student. However, most online KD techniques present some bottlenecks under the network capacity gap. By cooperatively and simultaneously training, the models the KL distance becomes incapable of properly minimizing the teacher's and student's distributions. Alongside accuracy, critical edge device applications are in need of well-calibrated compact networks. Confidence calibration provides a sensible way of getting trustworthy predictions. We propose BD-KD: Balancing of Divergences for online Knowledge Distillation. We show that adaptively balancing between the reverse and forward divergences shifts the focus of the training strategy to the compact student network without limiting the teacher network's learning process. We demonstrate that, by performing this balancing design at the level of the student distillation loss, we improve upon both performance accuracy and calibration of the compact student network. We conducted extensive experiments using a variety of network architectures and show improvements on multiple datasets including CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Tiny-ImageNet, and ImageNet. We illustrate the effectiveness of our approach through comprehensive comparisons and ablations with current state-of-the-art online and offline KD techniques.

Often we wish to transfer representational knowledge from one neural network to another. Examples include distilling a large network into a smaller one, transferring knowledge from one sensory modality to a second, or ensembling a collection of models into a single estimator. Knowledge distillation, the standard approach to these problems, minimizes the KL divergence between the probabilistic outputs of a teacher and student network. We demonstrate that this objective ignores important structural knowledge of the teacher network. This motivates an alternative objective by which we train a student to capture significantly more information in the teacher's representation of the data. We formulate this objective as contrastive learning. Experiments demonstrate that our resulting new objective outperforms knowledge distillation and other cutting-edge distillers on a variety of knowledge transfer tasks, including single model compression, ensemble distillation, and cross-modal transfer. Our method sets a new state-of-the-art in many transfer tasks, and sometimes even outperforms the teacher network when combined with knowledge distillation.

在线知识蒸馏（OKD）通过相互利用教师和学生之间的差异来改善所涉及的模型。它们之间的差距上有几个关键的瓶颈 - 例如，为什么以及何时以及何时损害表现，尤其是对学生的表现？如何量化教师和学生之间的差距？ - 接受了有限的正式研究。在本文中，我们提出了可切换的在线知识蒸馏（Switokd），以回答这些问题。 Switokd的核心思想不是专注于测试阶段的准确性差距，而是通过两种模式之间的切换策略来适应训练阶段的差距，即蒸馏差距 - 专家模式（暂停老师，同时暂停教师保持学生学习）和学习模式（重新启动老师）。为了拥有适当的蒸馏差距，我们进一步设计了一个自适应开关阈值，该阈值提供了有关何时切换到学习模式或专家模式的正式标准，从而改善了学生的表现。同时，老师从我们的自适应切换阈值中受益，并基本上与其他在线艺术保持同步。我们进一步将Switokd扩展到具有两个基础拓扑的多个网络。最后，广泛的实验和分析验证了Switokd在最新面前的分类的优点。我们的代码可在https://github.com/hfutqian/switokd上找到。

最初引入了知识蒸馏，以利用来自单一教师模型的额外监督为学生模型培训。为了提高学生表现，最近的一些变体试图利用多个教师利用不同的知识来源。然而，现有研究主要通过对多种教师预测的平均或将它们与其他无标签策略相结合，将知识集成在多种来源中，可能在可能存在低质量的教师预测存在中误导学生。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了信心感知的多教师知识蒸馏（CA-MKD），该知识蒸馏（CA-MKD）在地面真理标签的帮助下，适用于每个教师预测的样本明智的可靠性，与那些接近单热的教师预测标签分配了大量的重量。此外，CA-MKD包含中间层，以进一步提高学生表现。广泛的实验表明，我们的CA-MKD始终如一地优于各种教师学生架构的所有最先进的方法。

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been extensively used for natural language understanding (NLU) tasks to improve a small model's (a student) generalization by transferring the knowledge from a larger model (a teacher). Although KD methods achieve state-of-the-art performance in numerous settings, they suffer from several problems limiting their performance. It is shown in the literature that the capacity gap between the teacher and the student networks can make KD ineffective. Additionally, existing KD techniques do not mitigate the noise in the teacher's output: modeling the noisy behaviour of the teacher can distract the student from learning more useful features. We propose a new KD method that addresses these problems and facilitates the training compared to previous techniques. Inspired by continuation optimization, we design a training procedure that optimizes the highly non-convex KD objective by starting with the smoothed version of this objective and making it more complex as the training proceeds. Our method (Continuation-KD) achieves state-of-the-art performance across various compact architectures on NLU (GLUE benchmark) and computer vision tasks (CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100).

无数据知识蒸馏（DFKD）的目的是在没有培训数据的情况下培训从教师网络的轻量级学生网络。现有方法主要遵循生成信息样本的范式，并通过针对数据先验，边界样本或内存样本来逐步更新学生模型。但是，以前的DFKD方法很难在不同的训练阶段动态调整生成策略，这反过来又很难实现高效且稳定的训练。在本文中，我们探讨了如何从课程学习（CL）的角度来教学学生，并提出一种新方法，即“ CUDFKD”，即“使用课程的无数据知识蒸馏”。它逐渐从简单的样本到困难的样本学习，这类似于人类学习的方式。此外，我们还提供了对主要化最小化（MM）算法的理论分析，并解释了CUDFKD的收敛性。在基准数据集上进行的实验表明，使用简单的课程设计策略，CUDFKD可以在最先进的DFKD方法和不同的基准测试中实现最佳性能，例如CIFAR10上RESNET18模型的95.28 \％TOP1的精度，这是更好的而不是从头开始培训数据。训练很快，在30个时期内达到90 \％的最高精度，并且训练期间的差异稳定。同样在本文中，还分析和讨论了CUDFKD的适用性。

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been actively studied for image classification tasks in deep learning, aiming to improve the performance of a student based on the knowledge from a teacher. However, applying KD in image regression with a scalar response variable has been rarely studied, and there exists no KD method applicable to both classification and regression tasks yet. Moreover, existing KD methods often require a practitioner to carefully select or adjust the teacher and student architectures, making these methods less flexible in practice. To address the above problems in a unified way, we propose a comprehensive KD framework based on cGANs, termed cGAN-KD. Fundamentally different from existing KD methods, cGAN-KD distills and transfers knowledge from a teacher model to a student model via cGAN-generated samples. This novel mechanism makes cGAN-KD suitable for both classification and regression tasks, compatible with other KD methods, and insensitive to the teacher and student architectures. An error bound for a student model trained in the cGAN-KD framework is derived in this work, providing a theory for why cGAN-KD is effective as well as guiding the practical implementation of cGAN-KD. Extensive experiments on CIFAR-100 and ImageNet-100 show that we can combine state of the art KD methods with the cGAN-KD framework to yield a new state of the art. Moreover, experiments on Steering Angle and UTKFace demonstrate the effectiveness of cGAN-KD in image regression tasks, where existing KD methods are inapplicable.

知识蒸馏在模型压缩方面取得了显着的成就。但是，大多数现有方法需要原始的培训数据，而实践中的实际数据通常是不可用的，因为隐私，安全性和传输限制。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一种有条件的生成数据无数据知识蒸馏（CGDD）框架，用于培训有效的便携式网络，而无需任何实际数据。在此框架中，除了使用教师模型中提取的知识外，我们将预设标签作为额外的辅助信息介绍以培训发电机。然后，训练有素的发生器可以根据需要产生指定类别的有意义的培训样本。为了促进蒸馏过程，除了使用常规蒸馏损失，我们将预设标签视为地面真理标签，以便学生网络直接由合成训练样本类别监督。此外，我们强制学生网络模仿教师模型的注意图，进一步提高了其性能。为了验证我们方法的优越性，我们设计一个新的评估度量称为相对准确性，可以直接比较不同蒸馏方法的有效性。培训的便携式网络通过提出的数据无数据蒸馏方法获得了99.63％，99.07％和99.84％的CIFAR10，CIFAR100和CALTECH101的相对准确性。实验结果表明了所提出的方法的优越性。

除了使用硬标签的标准监督学习外，通常在许多监督学习设置中使用辅助损失来改善模型的概括。例如，知识蒸馏增加了第二个教师模仿模型训练的损失，在该培训中，教师可能是一个验证的模型，可以输出比标签更丰富的分布。同样，在标记数据有限的设置中，弱标记信息以标签函数的形式使用。此处引入辅助损失来对抗标签函数，这些功能可能是基于嘈杂的规则的真实标签近似值。我们解决了学习以原则性方式结合这些损失的问题。我们介绍AMAL，该AMAL使用元学习在验证度量上学习实例特定的权重，以实现损失的最佳混合。在许多知识蒸馏和规则降解域中进行的实验表明，Amal在这些领域中对竞争基准的增长可显着。我们通过经验分析我们的方法，并分享有关其提供性能提升的机制的见解。

知识蒸馏通常涉及如何有效地定义和转移知识从教师到学生。尽管最近的自我监督的对比知识取得了最佳表现，但迫使网络学习此类知识可能会损害对原始班级识别任务的表示。因此，我们采用替代性的自我监督的增强任务来指导网络学习原始识别任务和自我监督的辅助任务的共同分布。它被证明是一种更丰富的知识，可以提高表示能力而不会失去正常的分类能力。此外，以前的方法仅在最终层之间传递概率知识是不完整的。我们建议将几个辅助分类器附加到层次中间特征图中，以生成多样化的自我监督知识，并执行一对一的转移以彻底教授学生网络。我们的方法显着超过了先前的SOTA SSKD，CIFAR-100的平均改善为2.56 \％，并且在广泛使用的网络对上的Imagenet上有0.77 \％的提高。代码可在https://github.com/winycg/hsakd上找到。

最近对知识蒸馏的研究发现，组合来自多位教师或学生的“黑暗知识”是有助于为培训创造更好的软目标，但以更大的计算和/或参数的成本为本。在这项工作中，我们通过在同一批量中传播和集合其他样本的知识来提供批处理知识合奏（烘焙）以生产用于锚固图像的精细柔软目标。具体地，对于每个感兴趣的样本，根据采样间的亲和力加权知识的传播，其与当前网络一起估计。然后可以集合传播的知识以形成更好的蒸馏靶。通过这种方式，我们的烘焙框架只通过单个网络跨多个样本进行在线知识。与现有知识合并方法相比，它需要最小的计算和内存开销。广泛的实验表明，轻质但有效的烘烤始终如一地提升多个数据集上各种架构的分类性能，例如，在想象网上的显着+ 0.7％的VINE-T的增益，只有+ 1.5％计算开销和零附加参数。烘焙不仅改善了Vanilla基线，还超越了所有基准的单一网络最先进。