Using large deep learning models on limited hardware or edge devices is definitely prohibitive. There are methods to compress large models by orders of magnitude and maintain similar accuracy during inference.

In this episode I explain one of the first methods: knowledge distillation

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Reference

• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
• Knowledge Distillation and Student-Teacher Learning for Visual Intelligence: A Review and New Outlooks https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05937