Distilling foundation models for robust and efficient models in digital pathology

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16239v2
• Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:09:41 GMT
• Title: Distilling foundation models for robust and efficient models in digital pathology
• Authors: Alexandre Filiot, Nicolas Dop, Oussama Tchita, Auriane Riou, Rémy Dubois, Thomas Peeters, Daria Valter, Marin Scalbert, Charlie Saillard, Geneviève Robin, Antoine Olivier,
• Abstract summary: We distilled a large foundation model into a smaller one, reducing the number of parameters by several orders of magnitude. Our model, H0-mini, achieves nearly comparable performance to large FMs at a significantly reduced inference cost. It is evaluated on several public benchmarks, achieving 3rd place on the HEST benchmark and 5th place on the EVA benchmark.
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• Abstract: In recent years, the advent of foundation models (FM) for digital pathology has relied heavily on scaling the pre-training datasets and the model size, yielding large and powerful models. While it resulted in improving the performance on diverse downstream tasks, it also introduced increased computational cost and inference time. In this work, we explore the distillation of a large foundation model into a smaller one, reducing the number of parameters by several orders of magnitude. Leveraging distillation techniques, our distilled model, H0-mini, achieves nearly comparable performance to large FMs at a significantly reduced inference cost. It is evaluated on several public benchmarks, achieving 3rd place on the HEST benchmark and 5th place on the EVA benchmark. Additionally, a robustness analysis conducted on the PLISM dataset demonstrates that our distilled model reaches excellent robustness to variations in staining and scanning conditions, significantly outperforming other state-of-the art models. This opens new perspectives to design lightweight and robust models for digital pathology, without compromising on performance.

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