Summary of Exploring Dark Knowledge Under Various Teacher Capacities and Addressing Capacity Mismatch, by Xin-chun Li et al.
Exploring Dark Knowledge under Various Teacher Capacities and Addressing Capacity Mismatch
by Xin-Chun Li, Wen-Shu Fan, Bowen Tao, Le Gan, De-Chuan Zhan
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper delves into the concept of Knowledge Distillation (KD), where a well-performed yet large neural network transfers its “dark knowledge” to a weaker but lightweight one. The authors investigate how teachers with different capacities influence output logits and softened probabilities, leading to two fundamental observations: larger teachers produce less distinct probability vectors between non-ground-truth classes, while teachers with varying capacities are consistent in their relative class affinity cognition. Experimental studies verify these findings, providing in-depth empirical explanations. The paper also explores the “capacity mismatch” phenomenon, where a more accurate teacher doesn’t necessarily perform better when teaching the same student network. To address this issue, the authors propose multiple simple yet effective methods to enlarge distinctness between non-ground-truth class probabilities for larger teachers and compare their success with popular KD methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary KD helps transfer knowledge from large neural networks to smaller ones. This paper looks at how different-sized “teachers” affect the output of the student network. The authors found that bigger teachers are less good at telling apart classes that aren’t the correct one, while smaller teachers do a better job. They also discovered that teachers with different sizes are all consistent in their understanding of which classes are similar to each other. To make sure this “dark knowledge” is transferred successfully, the paper explores ways to make bigger teachers produce more distinct results and compares them to popular methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Knowledge distillation » Logits » Neural network » Probability
