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20192026
most citedFake it till you make it: Learning transferable representations from synthetic ImageNet clones

6 citations · 12 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

IDeaL: Data-Free Multi-Teacher Distillation via Improved Dead Leaves

Feyza Yavuz, Mert Bülent Sarıyıldız, Diane Larlus

Multi-teacher distillation has emerged as a way to combine complementary teacher models into a single student model that exhibits the strengths of all its teachers. The student is…

cs.CV2026

Compressing Observation History into Agent Memory: Distilling Transformers into Recurrent Transformers

Philippe Weinzaepfel, Christian Wolf, Bülent Mert Sariyildiz +2

Transformers are AI's workhorse with strong performance in modeling sequential data, but their computational cost becomes prohibitive when processing long sequences. We target long…

cs.CV2026

Task Alignment: A Simple Proxy for Practical Model Merging Across Diverse Vision Tasks

Pau de Jorge, César Roberto de Souza, Björn Michele +5

Efficiently merging several models fine-tuned for different tasks, but stemming from the same pretrained base model, is of great practical interest. Despite extensive prior work, m…

cs.RO2025

Kinaema: a recurrent sequence model for memory and pose in motion

Mert Bulent Sariyildiz, Philippe Weinzaepfel, Guillaume Bono +2

One key aspect of spatially aware robots is the ability to "find their bearings", ie. to correctly situate themselves in previously seen spaces. In this work, we focus on this part…

cs.CV2025

DUNE: Distilling a Universal Encoder from Heterogeneous 2D and 3D Teachers

Mert Bulent Sariyildiz, Philippe Weinzaepfel, Thomas Lucas +3

Recent multi-teacher distillation methods have unified the encoders of multiple foundation models into a single encoder, achieving competitive performance on core vision tasks like…

cs.CV2024

UNIC: Universal Classification Models via Multi-teacher Distillation

Mert Bulent Sariyildiz, Philippe Weinzaepfel, Thomas Lucas +2

Pretrained models have become a commodity and offer strong results on a broad range of tasks. In this work, we focus on classification and seek to learn a unique encoder able to ta…