This repository is a PyTorch implementation of "Comprehensive Knowledge Distillation with Causal Intervention". The code is modified from CRD, and the pretrained teachers (except WRN-40-4) are also downloaded from CRD.

The code was tested on

Python 3.6
torch 1.2.0
torchvision 0.4.0

To evaluate our pre-trained light-weight student networks, first download the folder "pretrained_student_model" from CID models into the "save" folder, then simply run the command below to evaluate these light-weight students:

run evaluate_scripts.sh

To train students from scratch by distilling knowledge from teacher networks with CID, first download the pretrained teacher folder "models" from CID models into the "save" folder, and then simply run the command below to compress large models to smaller ones:

run train_scripts.sh

If you find this code helpful, you may consider citing this paper:

@inproceedings{deng2021comprehensive,
  title={Comprehensive Knowledge Distillation with Causal Intervention},
  author={Deng, Xiang and Zhang, Zhongfei},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2021}
}