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Explainability-based knowledge distillation

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Haonan Chen
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Guosheng Hu
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赵才荣 (Cairong Zhao) *
DOI:10.1016/j.patcog.2024.111095delete
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Knowledge distillation (KD) is a popular approach for deep model acceleration. Based on the knowledge distilled, we categorize KD methods as label-related and structure-related. The former distills the very abstract (high-level) knowledge, e.g., logits; and the latter uses the spatial (low- or medium-level feature) knowledge. However, existing KD methods are usually not explainable, i.e., we do not know what knowledge is transferred during distillation. In this work, we propose a new KD method, Explainability-based Knowledge Distillation (Exp-KD). Specifically, we propose to use class activation map (CAM) as the explainable knowledge which can effectively capture both label- and structure-related information during the distillation. We conduct extensive experiments, including image classification tasks on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ImageNet datasets, and explainability tests on ImageNet and ImageNet-Segmentation. The results show the great effectiveness and explainability of Exp-KD compared with the state-of-the-art. Code is available at https://github.com/ Blenderama/Exp-KD.
Keywords:
Explainability
Knowledge distillation
CAM

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