The paper introduces a novel knowledge distillation method called Learning Embedding Linear Projections (LELP) that aims to address the limitations of existing distillation techniques, particularly in binary and few-class classification tasks.
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Motivation: Knowledge distillation (KD) has been less effective in binary classification and few-class problems, as the information about the teacher's generalization patterns scales directly with the number of classes. Many sophisticated distillation methods also focus on computer vision tasks and may not be as effective for other data modalities like natural language.
Approach: LELP extracts informative linear subspaces from the teacher's embedding space and uses them to create pseudo-subclasses. The student model is then trained to replicate these pseudo-subclasses using a unified cross-entropy loss.
Advantages: LELP is modality-independent, can handle mismatches in teacher-student embedding dimensions, and does not require retraining the teacher model, which is an important consideration for large models.
Experiments: The authors evaluate LELP on various binary and few-class classification tasks, including NLP benchmarks like Amazon Reviews and Sentiment140. LELP consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art distillation algorithms, including Subclass Distillation, which requires retraining the teacher model.
Insights: The authors also investigate the effectiveness of different unsupervised clustering methods for creating pseudo-subclasses. They find that linear projections, as used in LELP, consistently achieve high performance, outperforming other clustering approaches.
Overall, the paper presents a novel and effective knowledge distillation method that is particularly well-suited for binary and few-class classification tasks, and demonstrates its advantages over existing techniques.
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by Noel Loo, Fo... at arxiv.org 10-01-2024
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