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Student capacity and architecture correctness key to knowledge distillation

A new study published on arXiv investigates the effectiveness of knowledge distillation (KD) in ResNet models for image classification on CIFAR-10. The research found that a student model's capacity significantly impacts distillation gains, with larger students benefiting more. The study also highlighted the critical importance of implementation correctness, noting that a bug in gradient clipping had previously suppressed Feature-KD performance. Furthermore, ensuring the architecture is aware of input resolution is presented as a prerequisite for effective distillation. AI

IMPACT Highlights that optimizing student model capacity and ensuring architectural correctness are crucial for effective knowledge distillation in image classification.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing research findings on machine learning techniques.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Umut Onur Yasar ·

    Student Capacity Moderates Knowledge Distillation Effectiveness: A Systematic Study Across ResNet Teacher-Student Pairs on CIFAR-10

    arXiv:2605.31191v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We investigate how teacher-student capacity relationships modulate knowledge distillation (KD) effectiveness in ResNet-based image classification on CIFAR-10. Across three teacher-student pairs -- R50->R18, R34->R18, and R50->R34 --…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Umut Onur Yasar ·

    Student Capacity Moderates Knowledge Distillation Effectiveness: A Systematic Study Across ResNet Teacher-Student Pairs on CIFAR-10

    We investigate how teacher-student capacity relationships modulate knowledge distillation (KD) effectiveness in ResNet-based image classification on CIFAR-10. Across three teacher-student pairs -- R50->R18, R34->R18, and R50->R34 -- we compare Logit-KD and Feature-KD under contro…