Recently, large-scale pre-trained models have shown their advantages in many tasks. However, due to the huge computational complexity and storage requirements, it is challenging to apply the large-scale model to real scenes. A common solution is knowledge distillation which regards the large-scale model as a teacher model and helps to train a small student model to obtain a competitive performance. Cross-task Knowledge distillation expands the application scenarios of the large-scale pre-trained model. Existing knowledge distillation works focus on directly mimicking the final prediction or the intermediate layers of the teacher model, which represent the global-level characteristics and are task-specific. To alleviate the constraint of different label spaces, capturing invariant intrinsic local object characteristics (such as the shape characteristics of the leg and tail of the cattle and horse) plays a key role. Considering the complexity and variability of real scene tasks, we propose a Prototype-guided Cross-task Knowledge Distillation (ProC-KD) approach to transfer the intrinsic local-level object knowledge of a large-scale teacher network to various task scenarios. First, to better transfer the generalized knowledge in the teacher model in cross-task scenarios, we propose a prototype learning module to learn from the essential feature representation of objects in the teacher model. Secondly, for diverse downstream tasks, we propose a task-adaptive feature augmentation module to enhance the features of the student model with the learned generalization prototype features and guide the training of the student model to improve its generalization ability. The experimental results on various visual tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach for large-scale model cross-task knowledge distillation scenes.

由于其能够学习全球关系和卓越的表现，变形金刚引起了很多关注。为了实现更高的性能，将互补知识从变形金刚到卷积神经网络（CNN）是很自然的。但是，大多数现有的知识蒸馏方法仅考虑同源 - 建筑蒸馏，例如将知识从CNN到CNN蒸馏。在申请跨架构方案时，它们可能不合适，例如从变压器到CNN。为了解决这个问题，提出了一种新颖的跨架构知识蒸馏方法。具体而言，引入了部分交叉注意投影仪和小组线性投影仪，而不是直接模仿老师的输出/中级功能，以使学生的功能与教师的功能保持一致。并进一步提出了多视图强大的训练方案，以提高框架的稳健性和稳定性。广泛的实验表明，所提出的方法在小规模和大规模数据集上均优于14个最先进的方法。

大型预训练的变压器是现代语义分割基准的顶部，但具有高计算成本和冗长的培训。为了提高这种约束，我们从综合知识蒸馏的角度来研究有效的语义分割，并考虑弥合多源知识提取和特定于变压器特定的斑块嵌入之间的差距。我们提出了基于变压器的知识蒸馏（TransKD）框架，该框架通过蒸馏出大型教师变压器的特征地图和补丁嵌入来学习紧凑的学生变形金刚，绕过长期的预训练过程并将FLOPS降低> 85.0％。具体而言，我们提出了两个基本和两个优化模块：（1）交叉选择性融合（CSF）可以通过通道注意和层次变压器内的特征图蒸馏之间的知识转移； （2）嵌入对齐（PEA）在斑块过程中执行尺寸转换，以促进贴片嵌入蒸馏； （3）全局本地上下文混合器（GL-MIXER）提取了代表性嵌入的全局和局部信息； （4）嵌入助手（EA）是一种嵌入方法，可以无缝地桥接老师和学生模型，并具有老师的渠道数量。关于CityScapes，ACDC和NYUV2数据集的实验表明，TransKD的表现优于最先进的蒸馏框架，并竞争了耗时的预训练方法。代码可在https://github.com/ruipingl/transkd上找到。

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.

Considering the computation complexity, we propose a Guided Hybrid Quantization with One-to-one Self-Teaching (GHOST}) framework. More concretely, we first design a structure called guided quantization self-distillation (GQSD), which is an innovative idea for realizing lightweight through the synergy of quantization and distillation. The training process of the quantization model is guided by its full-precision model, which is time-saving and cost-saving without preparing a huge pre-trained model in advance. Second, we put forward a hybrid quantization (HQ) module to obtain the optimal bit width automatically under a constrained condition where a threshold for distribution distance between the center and samples is applied in the weight value search space. Third, in order to improve information transformation, we propose a one-to-one self-teaching (OST) module to give the student network a ability of self-judgment. A switch control machine (SCM) builds a bridge between the student network and teacher network in the same location to help the teacher to reduce wrong guidance and impart vital knowledge to the student. This distillation method allows a model to learn from itself and gain substantial improvement without any additional supervision. Extensive experiments on a multimodal dataset (VEDAI) and single-modality datasets (DOTA, NWPU, and DIOR) show that object detection based on GHOST outperforms the existing detectors. The tiny parameters (<9.7 MB) and Bit-Operations (BOPs) (<2158 G) compared with any remote sensing-based, lightweight or distillation-based algorithms demonstrate the superiority in the lightweight design domain. Our code and model will be released at https://github.com/icey-zhang/GHOST.

随着AI芯片（例如GPU，TPU和NPU）的改进以及物联网（IOT）的快速发展，一些强大的深神经网络（DNN）通常由数百万甚至数亿个参数组成，这些参数是可能不适合直接部署在低计算和低容量单元（例如边缘设备）上。最近，知识蒸馏（KD）被认为是模型压缩的有效方法之一，以减少模型参数。 KD的主要概念是从大型模型（即教师模型）的特征图中提取有用的信息，以引用成功训练一个小型模型（即学生模型），该模型大小比老师小得多。尽管已经提出了许多基于KD的方法来利用教师模型中中间层的特征图中的信息，但是，它们中的大多数并未考虑教师模型和学生模型之间的特征图的相似性，这可能让学生模型学习无用的信息。受到注意机制的启发，我们提出了一种新颖的KD方法，称为代表教师钥匙（RTK），该方法不仅考虑了特征地图的相似性，而且还会过滤掉无用的信息以提高目标学生模型的性能。在实验中，我们使用多个骨干网络（例如Resnet和wideresnet）和数据集（例如CIFAR10，CIFAR100，SVHN和CINIC10）验证了我们提出的方法。结果表明，我们提出的RTK可以有效地提高基于注意的KD方法的分类精度。

Although significant progress has been made in few-shot learning, most of existing few-shot learning methods require supervised pre-training on a large amount of samples of base classes, which limits their generalization ability in real world application. Recently, large-scale self-supervised vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) have provided a new paradigm for transferable visual representation learning. However, the pre-trained VLPs may neglect detailed visual information that is difficult to describe by language sentences, but important for learning an effective classifier in few-shot classification. To address the above problem, we propose a new framework, named Semantic-guided Visual Adapting (SgVA), which can effectively extend vision-language pre-trained models to produce discriminative task-specific visual features by comprehensively using a vision-specific contrastive loss, a cross-modal contrastive loss, and an implicit knowledge distillation. The implicit knowledge distillation is designed to transfer the fine-grained cross-modal knowledge to guide the updating of the vision adapter. State-of-the-art results on 13 datasets demonstrate that the adapted visual features can well complement the cross-modal features to improve few-shot image classification.

Domain adaptive object detection (DAOD) aims to alleviate transfer performance degradation caused by the cross-domain discrepancy. However, most existing DAOD methods are dominated by computationally intensive two-stage detectors, which are not the first choice for industrial applications. In this paper, we propose a novel semi-supervised domain adaptive YOLO (SSDA-YOLO) based method to improve cross-domain detection performance by integrating the compact one-stage detector YOLOv5 with domain adaptation. Specifically, we adapt the knowledge distillation framework with the Mean Teacher model to assist the student model in obtaining instance-level features of the unlabeled target domain. We also utilize the scene style transfer to cross-generate pseudo images in different domains for remedying image-level differences. In addition, an intuitive consistency loss is proposed to further align cross-domain predictions. We evaluate our proposed SSDA-YOLO on public benchmarks including PascalVOC, Clipart1k, Cityscapes, and Foggy Cityscapes. Moreover, to verify its generalization, we conduct experiments on yawning detection datasets collected from various classrooms. The results show considerable improvements of our method in these DAOD tasks. Our code is available on \url{https://github.com/hnuzhy/SSDA-YOLO}.

作为模型压缩的一种有前途的方法，知识蒸馏通过从繁琐的知识转移知识来改善紧凑模型的性能。用于指导学生培训的知识很重要。语义分割中的先前蒸馏方法努力从这些特征中提取各种形式的知识，涉及依靠先前信息并具有有限的性能提高的精心手动设计。在本文中，我们提出了一种称为标准化功能蒸馏（NFD）的简单而有效的特征蒸馏方法，旨在实现原始功能的有效蒸馏，而无需手动设计新的知识形式。关键的想法是防止学生专注于模仿通过归一化的教师特征响应的幅度。我们的方法可获得有关CityScapes，VOC 2012和ADE20K数据集的语义细分的最新蒸馏结果。代码将可用。

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。

机器学习中的知识蒸馏是将知识从名为教师的大型模型转移到一个名为“学生”的较小模型的过程。知识蒸馏是将大型网络（教师）压缩到较小网络（学生）的技术之一，该网络可以部署在手机等小型设备中。当教师和学生之间的网络规模差距增加时，学生网络的表现就会下降。为了解决这个问题，在教师模型和名为助教模型的学生模型之间采用了中间模型，这反过来弥补了教师与学生之间的差距。在这项研究中，我们已经表明，使用多个助教模型，可以进一步改进学生模型（较小的模型）。我们使用加权集合学习将这些多个助教模型组合在一起，我们使用了差异评估优化算法来生成权重值。

Vision Transformer（VIT）最近由于其出色的模型功能而引起了计算机视觉的极大关注。但是，大多数流行的VIT模型都有大量参数，从而限制了其在资源有限的设备上的适用性。为了减轻这个问题，我们提出了Tinyvit，这是一个新的小型，有效的小型视觉变压器，并通过我们提议的快速蒸馏框架在大型数据集上预处理。核心思想是将知识从大型模型转移到小型模型，同时使小型模型能够获得大量预处理数据的股息。更具体地说，我们在预训练期间应用蒸馏进行知识转移。大型教师模型的徽标被稀疏并提前存储在磁盘中，以节省内存成本和计算开销。微小的学生变形金刚自动从具有计算和参数约束的大型审计模型中缩小。全面的实验证明了TinyVit的功效。它仅具有21m参数的Imagenet-1k上的前1个精度为84.8％，与在Imagenet-21K上预读的SWIN-B相当，而使用较少的参数则使用了4.2倍。此外，增加图像分辨率，TinyVit可以达到86.5％的精度，仅使用11％参数，比SWIN-L略好。最后但并非最不重要的一点是，我们在各种下游任务上展示了TinyVit的良好转移能力。代码和型号可在https://github.com/microsoft/cream/tree/main/tinyvit上找到。

在线知识蒸馏会在所有学生模型之间进行知识转移，以减轻对预培训模型的依赖。但是，现有的在线方法在很大程度上依赖于预测分布并忽略了代表性知识的进一步探索。在本文中，我们提出了一种用于在线知识蒸馏的新颖的多尺度功能提取和融合方法（MFEF），其中包括三个关键组成部分：多尺度功能提取，双重注意和功能融合，以生成更有信息的特征图，以用于蒸馏。提出了在通道维度中的多尺度提取利用分界线和catenate，以提高特征图的多尺度表示能力。为了获得更准确的信息，我们设计了双重注意，以适应重要的渠道和空间区域。此外，我们通过功能融合来汇总并融合了以前的处理功能地图，以帮助培训学生模型。关于CIF AR-10，CIF AR-100和Cinic-10的广泛实验表明，MFEF转移了更有益的代表性知识，以蒸馏和胜过各种网络体系结构之间的替代方法

One of the most efficient methods for model compression is hint distillation, where the student model is injected with information (hints) from several different layers of the teacher model. Although the selection of hint points can drastically alter the compression performance, conventional distillation approaches overlook this fact and use the same hint points as in the early studies. Therefore, we propose a clustering based hint selection methodology, where the layers of teacher model are clustered with respect to several metrics and the cluster centers are used as the hint points. Our method is applicable for any student network, once it is applied on a chosen teacher network. The proposed approach is validated in CIFAR-100 and ImageNet datasets, using various teacher-student pairs and numerous hint distillation methods. Our results show that hint points selected by our algorithm results in superior compression performance compared to state-of-the-art knowledge distillation algorithms on the same student models and datasets.

基础模型不是模型生产管道的最后一章。以少数数据以少数数据传输到数千个下游任务正在成为基础模型的应用的趋势。在本文中，我们提出了一个通用转移框架：一个传输所有（OTA），将任何视觉基础模型（VFM）转移到具有少数下游数据的下游任务。我们首先通过图像重新表示微调（IRF）将VFM传输到特定于任务特定模型，然后将知识从特定于任务的模型蒸馏到部署的模型，其中包含由下游图像引导的生成（DIGG）产生的数据。OTA在传输时没有对上游数据，VFM和下游任务的依赖性。它还为VFM研究人员提供了一种方法，以释放其上游信息，以便更好地转移，但由于隐私要求而没有泄漏数据。大规模实验在少数数据设置中验证我们方法的有效性和优越性。我们的代码将被释放。

知识蒸馏（KD）是一个有效的框架，旨在将有意义的信息从大型老师转移到较小的学生。通常，KD通常涉及如何定义和转移知识。以前的KD方法通常着重于挖掘各种形式的知识，例如功能地图和精致信息。但是，知识源自主要监督任务，因此是高度特定于任务的。在自我监督的代表学习的最新成功中，我们提出了一项辅助自我实施的增强任务，以指导网络学习更多有意义的功能。因此，我们可以从KD的这项任务中得出软性自我实施的增强分布作为更丰富的黑暗知识。与以前的知识不同，此分布编码从监督和自我监督的特征学习中编码联合知识。除了知识探索之外，我们建议在各个隐藏层上附加几个辅助分支，以充分利用分层特征图。每个辅助分支都被指导学习自学的增强任务，并将这种分布从教师到学生提炼。总体而言，我们称我们的KD方法为等级自我实施的增强知识蒸馏（HSSAKD）。标准图像分类的实验表明，离线和在线HSSAKD都在KD领域达到了最先进的表现。对象检测的进一步转移实验进一步验证了HSSAKD可以指导网络学习更好的功能。该代码可在https://github.com/winycg/hsakd上找到。

在多种方式知识蒸馏研究的背景下，现有方法主要集中在唯一的学习教师最终产出问题。因此，教师网络与学生网络之间存在深处。有必要强制学生网络来学习教师网络的模态关系信息。为了有效利用从教师转移到学生的知识，采用了一种新的模型关系蒸馏范式，通过建模不同的模态之间的关系信息，即学习教师模级克矩阵。

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring knowledge acquired in one model (a teacher) to another model (a student) that is typically smaller. Previous approaches can be expressed as a form of training the student to mimic output activations of individual data examples represented by the teacher. We introduce a novel approach, dubbed relational knowledge distillation (RKD), that transfers mutual relations of data examples instead. For concrete realizations of RKD, we propose distance-wise and angle-wise distillation losses that penalize structural differences in relations. Experiments conducted on different tasks show that the proposed method improves educated student models with a significant margin. In particular for metric learning, it allows students to outperform their teachers' performance, achieving the state of the arts on standard benchmark datasets.

深度学习的巨大成功主要是由于大规模的网络架构和高质量的培训数据。但是，在具有有限的内存和成像能力的便携式设备上部署最近的深层模型仍然挑战。一些现有的作品通过知识蒸馏进行了压缩模型。不幸的是，这些方法不能处理具有缩小图像质量的图像，例如低分辨率（LR）图像。为此，我们采取了开创性的努力，从高分辨率（HR）图像到达将处理LR图像的紧凑型网络模型中学习的繁重网络模型中蒸馏有用的知识，从而推动了新颖的像素蒸馏的当前知识蒸馏技术。为实现这一目标，我们提出了一名教师助理 - 学生（TAS）框架，将知识蒸馏分解为模型压缩阶段和高分辨率表示转移阶段。通过装备新颖的特点超分辨率（FSR）模块，我们的方法可以学习轻量级网络模型，可以实现与重型教师模型相似的准确性，但参数更少，推理速度和较低分辨率的输入。在三个广泛使用的基准，\即，幼崽200-2011，Pascal VOC 2007和ImageNetsub上的综合实验证明了我们方法的有效性。

本文研究了从预先训练的模型，尤其是蒙面自动编码器中提取知识的潜力。我们的方法很简单：除了优化掩盖输入的像素重建损失外，我们还将教师模型的中间特征图与学生模型的中间特征图之间的距离最小化。此设计导致一个计算高效的知识蒸馏框架，给定1）仅使用一个少量可见的补丁子集，2）（笨拙的）教师模型仅需要部分执行，\ ie，\ ie，在前几个中，向前传播输入层，用于获得中间特征图。与直接蒸馏微型模型相比，提炼预训练的模型显着改善了下游性能。例如，通过将知识从MAE预先训练的VIT-L提炼为VIT-B，我们的方法可实现84.0％的Imagenet Top-1精度，表现优于直接将微型VIT-L蒸馏的基线，降低1.2％。更有趣的是，我们的方法即使具有极高的掩盖率也可以从教师模型中进行鲁棒性蒸馏：例如，在蒸馏过程中仅可见十个斑块，我们的VIT-B具有竞争力的前1个Imagenet精度为83.6％，在95％的掩盖率中，只有十个斑块。 ;令人惊讶的是，它仍然可以通过仅四个可见斑（98％的掩盖率）积极训练来确保82.4％的Top-1 Imagenet精度。代码和模型可在https://github.com/ucsc-vlaa/dmae上公开获得。