Summary of How to Train the Teacher Model For Effective Knowledge Distillation, by Shayan Mohajer Hamidi et al.
How to Train the Teacher Model for Effective Knowledge Distillation
by Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Xizhen Deng, Renhao Tan, Linfeng Ye, Ahmed Hussein Salamah
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jul 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 investigates the role of teachers in knowledge distillation (KD), a process where a student model learns from a pre-trained teacher model. The authors show that the teacher’s primary responsibility is to provide an estimate of the true Bayes conditional probability density (BCPD). They also propose that the student’s error rate can be upper-bounded by the mean squared error (MSE) between the teacher’s output and BCPD. To enhance KD efficacy, the teacher should be trained such that its output is close to BCPD in MSE sense. The authors demonstrate that training the teacher model with MSE loss consistently boosts the student’s accuracy, resulting in improvements of up to 2.6%. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how teachers help students learn new things. It shows that the main job of a teacher is to give an estimate of what’s probably true. The authors also say that if the teacher does this well, it helps the student not make too many mistakes. To get better results, the teacher should be trained to do this job well. In experiments, they found that when teachers are trained in this way, students learn more and get better at doing tasks. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Knowledge distillation * Mse * Probability * Student model * Teacher model
