ECCV Paper IDeaL: Data-free multi-teacher distillation via improved dead leaves

RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-02

Accepted at ECCV 2026, the paper 'IDeaL' proposes a data-free multi-teacher knowledge distillation method. By using optimized structured noise, it successfully distills knowledge from multiple vision teachers into a single student model without real images, significantly narrowing the performance gap with real-image distillation and surpassing it on limited data budgets.

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