Too much of a good thing -- when knowledge distillation promotes overfitting, and how to avoid it

arXiv:2608.23752 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-24

Updated: 2026-08-24

Terminology

• Distillation — 125× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Knowledge Distillation — 36× in this paper · explained in 11 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 32× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 31× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Explainability — 19× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• All-Block Distillation — 8× in this paper
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 8× in this paper
• Deep Learning — 7× in this paper
• End-Block Distillation — 7× in this paper
• Data Augmentation — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Centered Kernel Alignment — 3× in this paper
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diagnostic Tools — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Edge Deployment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion — 1× in this paper
• Homogeneity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• International Skin Imaging Collaboration — 1× in this paper
• International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging — 1× in this paper
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Loss Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mean Squared Error — 1× in this paper
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pruning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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