Artificial Intelligence · 04.08.2026, 07:48 UTC
Progressive$^2$: A Teacher-Student Progressive Co-Evolving Knowledge Distillation Method for Substantial Model Compression
| Schweregrad | info |
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.LG ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 04.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2608.00129v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge distillation (KD) is a widely utilized technique for transferring knowledge from a large model (the teacher) to a smaller model (the student). Owing to its flexibility and broad applicability, KD has been extensively applied in the compression of server-side models to meet the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of client users. Despite significant advancements, the performance of distillation is substantially compromised when a large disparity exists between the capabilities of the server and the requirements of the client. To alleviate this problem, we propose a novel distillation approach, named Progressive$^2$, which operates through the combination of a progressively stronger teacher and a progressively smaller student. On the side of the teacher, rather than involving all layers simultaneously, we progressively select additional layers for distillation following a raw-to-rich semantic progression, establishing a systematic learning curriculum. Furthermore, we design a teacher-side multi-feature fusion adapter for the teacher to improve training stability, which is theoretically supported by the framework of Lipschitz continuity. On the side of the student, rather than directly training a tiny model, we gradually reduce the size of the network to facilitate an iterative co-evolution with the teacher. Progressive$^2$ serves as a flexible framework; the progressive strategy of the teacher can be deployed independently to achieve an optimal balance between accuracy and training efficiency, while the joint …