Abstract
Mutual knowledge distillation (MKD) improves a model by distilling knowledge from another model. However, not all knowledge is certain and correct, especially under adverse conditions. For example, label noise usually leads to less reliable models due to undesired memorization. Wrong knowledge harms the learning rather than helps it. This problem can be handled by two aspects: (i) knowledge source, improving the reliability of each model (knowledge producer) improving the knowledge source’s reliability; (ii) selecting reliable knowledge for distillation. Making a model more reliable is widely studied while selective MKD receives little attention. Therefore, we focus on studying selective MKD and highlight its importance in this work. Concretely, a generic MKD framework, Confident knowledge selection followed by Mutual Distillation (CMD), is designed. The key component of CMD is a generic knowledge selection formulation, making the selection threshold either static (CMD-S) or progressive (CMD-P). Additionally, CMD covers two special cases: zero knowledge and all knowledge, leading to a unified MKD framework. Extensive experiments are present to demonstrate the effectiveness of CMD and thoroughly justify the design of CMD.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Accepted - 27 Oct 2022 |
Event | NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning - virtual, online Duration: 09 Dec 2022 → 09 Dec 2022 https://tsrml2022.github.io/ |
Workshop
Workshop | NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning |
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Abbreviated title | NeurIPS 2022 - TSRML |
City | virtual, online |
Period | 09/12/2022 → 09/12/2022 |
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