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Summary of Adakd: Dynamic Knowledge Distillation Of Asr Models Using Adaptive Loss Weighting, by Shreyan Ganguly et al.


AdaKD: Dynamic Knowledge Distillation of ASR models using Adaptive Loss Weighting

by Shreyan Ganguly, Roshan Nayak, Rakshith Rao, Ujan Deb, Prathosh AP

First submitted to arxiv on: 11 May 2024

Categories

  • Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
  • Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
This paper proposes Adaptive Knowledge Distillation, a novel technique for model compression that adapts the weights assigned to task-specific and knowledge distillation losses at the instance level. The authors draw inspiration from curriculum learning, where sample difficulty increases with teacher loss, and design a plug-and-play method that can be applied on top of any task-specific and distillation objectives. Experimental results show that Adaptive Knowledge Distillation outperforms conventional knowledge distillation methods and existing instance-level loss functions.
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This paper is about making AI models smaller and faster without losing their ability to perform well. Right now, there are ways to do this called knowledge distillation. But these methods give equal importance to two different goals: doing the main task and learning from a bigger teacher model. This can lead to bad results. The authors of this paper want to improve things by giving more weight to one goal or the other depending on how hard each individual example is. They call their new method Adaptive Knowledge Distillation, and it’s like a special filter that helps make AI models better.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Curriculum learning  » Distillation  » Knowledge distillation  » Model compression  » Teacher model