Summary of Teacher As a Lenient Expert: Teacher-agnostic Data-free Knowledge Distillation, by Hyunjune Shin et al.
Teacher as a Lenient Expert: Teacher-Agnostic Data-Free Knowledge Distillation
by Hyunjune Shin, Dong-Wan Choi
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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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 presents a new approach to data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD), where a student model is trained using a generator without accessing the original data. The authors identify a significant issue with existing DFKD methods, which are highly sensitive to different teacher models and can result in catastrophic failures of distillation. They propose a teacher-agnostic data-free knowledge distillation (TA-DFKD) method that addresses this problem by allowing the teacher model to evaluate samples without imposing restrictions on their diversity. The authors design a sample selection approach that uses clean samples verified by the teacher model, which improves both robustness and training stability across various teacher models. They demonstrate the effectiveness of TA-DFKD through extensive experiments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) is a way to teach one AI model to be like another without using the same data. But this method can be tricky because it’s sensitive to the “teacher” model used. Sometimes, even when the teacher model is well-trained, the student model doesn’t learn correctly. The researchers in this paper found that existing DFKD methods don’t work well and proposed a new way called TA-DFKD. This method makes the teacher model more like an expert who helps the generator create good samples without restricting them too much. They tested their idea with many different teacher models and showed that it works better than other methods. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Distillation * Knowledge distillation * Student model * Teacher model
