2 papers
cs.CV2026
Anti-Shortcut Distillation via Temporal Negative Knowledge Transfer
Syed Muhammad Raza, Omer Tariq, Jeongbae Son
Knowledge distillation (KD) trains a compact student by attracting it towards a converged teacher. It is silent about which directions the teacher itself learned to suppress: repul…
cs.LG2026
Zeta: Dual Whitening for Matrix Optimization via Coordinate-Adaptive Preconditioning
Kaiwen Chen, Shuhai Zhang, Zimo Liu +7
Large-scale neural network training increasingly relies on matrix-aware optimizers that exploit the structure of weight parameters beyond element-wise adaptation. However, existing…