Learning from Human Educational Wisdom: A Student-Centered Knowledge Distillation Method

Shunzhi Yang, Jinfeng Yang, Mengchu Zhou, Zhenhua Huang, Wei Shi Zheng, Xiong Yang, Jin Ren

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Abstract

Existing studies on knowledge distillation typically focus on teacher-centered methods, in which the teacher network is trained according to its own standards before transferring the learned knowledge to a student one. However, due to differences in network structure between the teacher and the student, the knowledge learned by the former may not be desired by the latter. Inspired by human educational wisdom, this paper proposes a Student-Centered Distillation (SCD) method that enables the teacher network to adjust its knowledge transfer according to the student network's needs. We implemented SCD based on various human educational wisdom, e.g., the teacher network identified and learned the knowledge desired by the student network on the validation set, and then transferred it to the latter through the training set. To address the problems of current deficiency knowledge, hard sample learning and knowledge forgetting faced by a student network in the learning process, we introduce and improve Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) algorithms from automation fields to make them effective in identifying the current knowledge required by the student network. Furthermore, we propose a curriculum learning-based fuzzy strategy and apply it to the proposed PID control algorithm, such that the student network in SCD can actively pay attention to the learning of challenging samples after with certain knowledge. The overall performance of SCD is verified in multiple tasks by comparing it with state-of-the-art ones. Experimental results show that our student-centered distillation method outperforms existing teacher-centered ones.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)4188-4205
Number of pages18
JournalIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Volume46
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Applied Mathematics

Keywords

  • Curriculum learning
  • fuzzy PID
  • human educational wisdom
  • knowledge distillation
  • student-centered

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