Awesome Knowledge Distillation

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Papers

• Combining labeled and unlabeled data with co-training, A. Blum, T. Mitchell, 1998
• Model Compression, Rich Caruana, 2006
• Dark knowledge, Geoffrey Hinton , OriolVinyals & Jeff Dean, 2014
• Learning with Pseudo-Ensembles, Philip Bachman, Ouais Alsharif, Doina Precup, 2014
• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network, Hinton, J.Dean, 2015
• Cross Modal Distillation for Supervision Transfer, Saurabh Gupta, Judy Hoffman, Jitendra Malik, 2015
• Heterogeneous Knowledge Transfer in Video Emotion Recognition, Attribution and Summarization, Baohan Xu, Yanwei Fu, Yu-Gang Jiang, Boyang Li, Leonid Sigal, 2015
• Distilling Model Knowledge, George Papamakarios, 2015
• Unifying distillation and privileged information, David Lopez-Paz, Léon Bottou, Bernhard Schölkopf, Vladimir Vapnik, 2015
• Learning Using Privileged Information: Similarity Control and Knowledge Transfer, Vladimir Vapnik, Rauf Izmailov, 2015
• Distillation as a Defense to Adversarial Perturbations against Deep Neural Networks, Nicolas Papernot, Patrick McDaniel, Xi Wu, Somesh Jha, Ananthram Swami, 2016
• Do deep convolutional nets really need to be deep and convolutional?, Gregor Urban, Krzysztof J. Geras, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Ozlem Aslan, Shengjie Wang, Rich Caruana, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Matthai Philipose, Matt Richardson, 2016
• Paying More Attention to Attention: Improving the Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks via Attention Transfer, Sergey Zagoruyko, Nikos Komodakis, 2016
• FitNets: Hints for Thin Deep Nets, Adriana Romero, Nicolas Ballas, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Antoine Chassang, Carlo Gatta, Yoshua Bengio, 2015
• Deep Model Compression: Distilling Knowledge from Noisy Teachers, Bharat Bhusan Sau, Vineeth N. Balasubramanian, 2016
• Knowledge Distillation for Small-footprint Highway Networks, Liang Lu, Michelle Guo, Steve Renals, 2016
• Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation, deeplearning-papernotes, Yoon Kim, Alexander M. Rush, 2016
• MobileID: Face Model Compression by Distilling Knowledge from Neurons, Ping Luo, Zhenyao Zhu, Ziwei Liu, Xiaogang Wang and Xiaoou Tang, 2016
• Recurrent Neural Network Training with Dark Knowledge Transfer, Zhiyuan Tang, Dong Wang, Zhiyong Zhang, 2016
• Paying More Attention to Attention: Improving the Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks via Attention Transfer, Sergey Zagoruyko, Nikos Komodakis, 2016
• Adapting Models to Signal Degradation using Distillation, Jong-Chyi Su, Subhransu Maji,2016
• Mean teachers are better role models: Weight-averaged consistency targets improve semi-supervised deep learning results, Antti Tarvainen, Harri Valpola, 2017
• Data-Free Knowledge Distillation For Deep Neural Networks, Raphael Gontijo Lopes, Stefano Fenu, 2017
• Like What You Like: Knowledge Distill via Neuron Selectivity Transfer, Zehao Huang, Naiyan Wang, 2017
• Learning Loss for Knowledge Distillation with Conditional Adversarial Networks, Zheng Xu, Yen-Chang Hsu, Jiawei Huang, 2017
• DarkRank: Accelerating Deep Metric Learning via Cross Sample Similarities Transfer, Yuntao Chen, Naiyan Wang, Zhaoxiang Zhang, 2017
• Knowledge Projection for Deep Neural Networks, Zhi Zhang, Guanghan Ning, Zhihai He, 2017
• Moonshine: Distilling with Cheap Convolutions, Elliot J. Crowley, Gavin Gray, Amos Storkey, 2017
• Local Affine Approximators for Improving Knowledge Transfer, Suraj Srinivas and Francois Fleuret, 2017
• Best of Both Worlds: Transferring Knowledge from Discriminative Learning to a Generative Visual Dialog Model, Jiasen Lu1, Anitha Kannan, Jianwei Yang, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra 2017
• Learning Efficient Object Detection Models with Knowledge Distillation, Guobin Chen, Wongun Choi, Xiang Yu, Tony Han, Manmohan Chandraker, 2017
• Model Distillation with Knowledge Transfer from Face Classification to Alignment and Verification, Chong Wang, Xipeng Lan and Yangang Zhang, 2017
• Learning Transferable Architectures for Scalable Image Recognition, Barret Zoph, Vijay Vasudevan, Jonathon Shlens, Quoc V. Le, 2017
• Revisiting knowledge transfer for training object class detectors, Jasper Uijlings, Stefan Popov, Vittorio Ferrari, 2017
• A Gift from Knowledge Distillation: Fast Optimization, Network Minimization and Transfer Learning, Junho Yim, Donggyu Joo, Jihoon Bae, Junmo Kim, 2017
• Rocket Launching: A Universal and Efficient Framework for Training Well-performing Light Net, Zihao Liu, Qi Liu, Tao Liu, Yanzhi Wang, Wujie Wen, 2017
• Data Distillation: Towards Omni-Supervised Learning, Ilija Radosavovic, Piotr Dollár, Ross Girshick, Georgia Gkioxari, Kaiming He, 2017
• Interpreting Deep Classifiers by Visual Distillation of Dark Knowledge, Kai Xu, Dae Hoon Park, Chang Yi, Charles Sutton, 2018
• Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameters Sharing, Hieu Pham, Melody Y. Guan, Barret Zoph, Quoc V. Le, Jeff Dean, 2018
• Transparent Model Distillation, Sarah Tan, Rich Caruana, Giles Hooker, Albert Gordo, 2018
• Defensive Collaborative Multi-task Training - Defending against Adversarial Attack towards Deep Neural Networks, Derek Wang, Chaoran Li, Sheng Wen, Yang Xiang, Wanlei Zhou, Surya Nepal, 2018
• Deep Co-Training for Semi-Supervised Image Recognition, Siyuan Qiao, Wei Shen, Zhishuai Zhang, Bo Wang, Alan Yuille, 2018
• Feature Distillation: DNN-Oriented JPEG Compression Against Adversarial Examples, Zihao Liu, Qi Liu, Tao Liu, Yanzhi Wang, Wujie Wen, 2018
• Multimodal Recurrent Neural Networks with Information Transfer Layers for Indoor Scene Labeling, Abrar H. Abdulnabi, Bing Shuai, Zhen Zuo, Lap-Pui Chau, Gang Wang, 2018

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Videos

• Dark knowledge, Geoffrey Hinton, 2014
• Model Compression, Rich Caruana, 2016

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Implementations

MXNet

• Bayesian Dark Knowledge

PyTorch

• Attention Transfer
• Best of Both Worlds: Transferring Knowledge from Discriminative Learning to a Generative Visual Dialog Model
• Interpreting Deep Classifier by Visual Distillation of Dark Knowledge
• A PyTorch implementation for exploring deep and shallow knowledge distillation (KD) experiments with flexibility
• Mean teachers are better role models

Lua

• Example for teacher/student-based learning

Torch

• Distilling knowledge to specialist ConvNets for clustered classification
• Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation, Neural Machine Translation on Android
• cifar.torch distillation

Theano

• FitNets: Hints for Thin Deep Nets
• Transfer knowledge from a large DNN or an ensemble of DNNs into a small DNN

Lasagne + Theano

• Experiments-with-Distilling-Knowledge

Tensorflow

• Deep Model Compression: Distilling Knowledge from Noisy Teachers
• Distillation
• An example application of neural network distillation to MNIST
• Data-free Knowledge Distillation for Deep Neural Networks
• Inspired by net2net, network distillation
• Deep Reinforcement Learning, knowledge transfer
• Knowledge Distillation using Tensorflow

Caffe

• Face Model Compression by Distilling Knowledge from Neurons
• KnowledgeDistillation Layer (Caffe implementation)
• Knowledge distillation, realized in caffe
• Cross Modal Distillation for Supervision Transfer

Keras

• Knowledge distillation with Keras
• keras google-vision's distillation
• Distilling the knowledge in a Neural Network