Meta Learning for Knowledge Distillation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04570v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 17:59:03 GMT
• Title: Meta Learning for Knowledge Distillation
• Authors: Wangchunshu Zhou and Canwen Xu and Julian McAuley
• Abstract summary: We show the teacher network can learn to better transfer knowledge to the student network. We introduce a pilot update mechanism to improve the alignment between the inner-learner and meta-learner.
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• Abstract: We present Meta Learning for Knowledge Distillation (MetaDistil), a simple yet effective alternative to traditional knowledge distillation (KD) methods where the teacher model is fixed during training. We show the teacher network can learn to better transfer knowledge to the student network (i.e., learning to teach) with the feedback from the performance of the distilled student network in a meta learning framework. Moreover, we introduce a pilot update mechanism to improve the alignment between the inner-learner and meta-learner in meta learning algorithms that focus on an improved inner-learner. Experiments on various benchmarks show that MetaDistil can yield significant improvements compared with traditional KD algorithms and is less sensitive to the choice of different student capacity and hyperparameters, facilitating the use of KD on different tasks and models. The code is available at https://github.com/JetRunner/MetaDistil

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