Summary of Spectralkd: a Unified Framework For Interpreting and Distilling Vision Transformers Via Spectral Analysis, by Huiyuan Tian et al.
SpectralKD: A Unified Framework for Interpreting and Distilling Vision Transformers via Spectral Analysis
by Huiyuan Tian, Bonan Xu, Shijian Li, Gang Pan
First submitted to arxiv on: 26 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A unified theoretical framework for compressing large Vision Transformers (ViTs) using Knowledge Distillation (KD) is proposed, called SpectralKD. The framework offers insights into ViT architecture and optimizes KD via spectral analysis. Analyzing CaiT’s layer-wise concentration of information informs optimal layer selection for KD, while Swin Transformer and CaiT exhibit similar spectral encoding patterns, leading to a feature map alignment guideline. A simple yet effective spectral alignment method is proposed, achieving state-of-the-art performance on ImageNet-1K without introducing trainable parameters. The analysis reveals that distilled students can reproduce their teachers’ spectral patterns, opening the field of “distillation dynamics”. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A team of researchers has created a new way to understand and improve how computers learn from large amounts of data. They developed a method called SpectralKD, which helps smaller computer models learn from bigger ones by analyzing the patterns in the data. The method is especially useful for compressing big models into smaller ones without losing their abilities. The team found that some models, like CaiT and Swin Transformer, have similar patterns in the way they process data, which can be used to make the learning process more efficient. This new approach has been shown to be very effective, achieving better results than previous methods without requiring any extra training. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Distillation » Feature map » Knowledge distillation » Transformer » Vit
