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Knowledge Distillation

Knowledge Distillation is a model-compression technique, introduced by Geoffrey Hinton and colleagues in 2015, that trains a small student model using the soft-label outputs of a large teacher model. Distilled models such as DistilBERT and TinyBERT reach roughly 97% of the larger model's performance while running far faster.

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Knowledge Distillation (Teacher–Student Model Compression)
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / deep-learning
  • Hinton, G., Vinyals, O. & Dean, J. (2015). Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network. NeurIPS Deep Learning Workshop. · URL
  • Sanh, V., Debut, L., Chaumond, J. & Wolf, T. (2019). DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter. arXiv:1910.01108. · URL
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