用图文模型增强知识蒸馏,让小模型学得更准更稳
Enriching Knowledge Distillation with Cross-Modal Teacher Fusion
- 融合传统教师与CLIP的视觉语言信息,提升知识多样性
- 在多个数据集上超越主流基线,错误率降低1.2%以上
- 适合追求高鲁棒性与泛化能力的模型压缩场景
多教师知识蒸馏比单教师方法更有效,通过匹配logit或特征将知识从专家教师传递给轻量级学生模型。然而,现有方法大多仅依赖单一模态的视觉信息,缺乏知识多样性,忽视了跨模态表示的潜力。本文探索利用CLIP的视觉-语言知识作为知识蒸馏的补充监督信号,这一方向尚未被充分研究。我们提出一种简单但有效的框架,将传统教师的logit和特征与CLIP的输出进行融合。通过引入CLIP的多提示文本引导,融合后的监督信号同时捕捉了数据集特定和语义丰富的视觉线索。实验表明,该方法不仅提升了准确率,还使预测更加自信可靠:正确置信度案例显著增加,错误置信度案例大幅减少。此外,融合后优化了整个logit分布,为非目标类别生成更具语义意义的概率,从而增强类间一致性与蒸馏质量。尽管方法简洁,RichKD在多个基准测试中持续优于多数现有基线,并在分布外变化和输入扰动下展现出更强鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-teacher knowledge distillation (KD), a more effective technique than traditional single-teacher methods, transfers knowledge from expert teachers to a compact student model using logit or feature matching. However, most existing approaches lack knowledge diversity, as they rely solely on unimodal visual information, overlooking the potential of cross-modal representations. In this work, we explore the use of CLIP's vision-language knowledge as a complementary source of supervision for KD, an area that remains largely underexplored. We propose a simple yet effective framework that fuses the logits and features of a conventional teacher with those from CLIP. By incorporating CLIP's multi-prompt textual guidance, the fused supervision captures both dataset-specific and semantically enriched visual cues. Beyond accuracy, analysis shows that the fused teacher yields more confident and reliable predictions, significantly increasing confident-correct cases while reducing confidently wrong ones. Moreover, fusion with CLIP refines the entire logit distribution, producing semantically meaningful probabilities for non-target classes, thereby improving inter-class consistency and distillation quality. Despite its simplicity, the proposed method, Enriching Knowledge Distillation (RichKD), consistently outperforms most existing baselines across multiple benchmarks and exhibits stronger robustness under distribution shifts and input corruptions.
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