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Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 20 of 20 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2502.07436.

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This paper cites GPT-4 Technical Report.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers GPT-4 Technical Report

Reference 1

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Observation e7f6d786-4436-4c22-983f-bab6d53ca99f · outbound

This paper cites Language Models are Few-Shot Learners.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

Reference 5

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Observation 9068f8ac-0ddf-4406-b958-8d7da0fa1248 · outbound

This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 6

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This paper cites For language pretraining tasks, we trained LLaMA models on the BabyLM dataset.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers For language pretraining tasks, we trained LLaMA models on the BabyLM dataset

Reference 7

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Observation 64ee1a55-faa9-42fc-9d83-6d4ad651d957 · outbound

This paper cites Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network

Reference 8

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Observation e4387d8a-7692-4398-be93-7dd99ac5b25b · outbound

This paper cites 11 Submission and Formatting Instructions for ICML 2025 Figure.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers 11 Submission and Formatting Instructions for ICML 2025 Figure

Reference 9

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Observation c4c4921f-a0c1-45ed-be5e-db6e6fb75890 · outbound

This paper cites Improved Precision and Recall Metric for Assessing Generative Models.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Improved Precision and Recall Metric for Assessing Generative Models

Reference 11

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This paper cites DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter

Reference 14

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Observation 3a7de572-72d7-4a51-80b2-fa93d0779bc4 · outbound

This paper cites Patient Knowledge Distillation for BERT Model Compression.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Patient Knowledge Distillation for BERT Model Compression

Reference 15

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Observation a1a4deb7-9465-4e06-8cf2-3d522917c86e · outbound

This paper cites MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers MobileBERT: a Compact Task-Agnostic BERT for Resource-Limited Devices

Reference 16

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Observation c86c0533-4ef1-46a9-b04b-f9bc814c9412 · outbound

This paper cites Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models

Reference 18

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Observation 6f1e988b-8ccc-4f1b-872a-b7e935942d91 · outbound

This paper cites Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Analyzing Multi-Head Self-Attention: Specialized Heads Do the Heavy Lifting, the Rest Can Be Pruned

Reference 19

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Observation ad6542bb-8d4f-49ac-9436-755170fbc72c · outbound

This paper cites ViTKD: Practical Guidelines for ViT feature knowledge distillation.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers ViTKD: Practical Guidelines for ViT feature knowledge distillation

Reference 20

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Observation c1b7c2b1-06b6-4e3b-9cef-0ebb3902576c · outbound

This paper cites Like What You Like: Knowledge Distill via Neuron Selectivity Transfer.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Like What You Like: Knowledge Distill via Neuron Selectivity Transfer

Reference 2015

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Observation ce1c0edc-2323-4c8f-8410-c35cf4074639 · outbound

This paper cites TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding

Reference 2017

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Observation 0f6afcf6-867a-4516-9a2e-ebf2d6212a11 · outbound

This paper cites Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP: A Report on the First BlackboxNLP Workshop.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP: A Report on the First BlackboxNLP Workshop

Reference 2019

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Observation 4f8a83dc-2af1-42c6-8018-1a4e84847cda · outbound

This paper cites Training data-efficient image transform- ers & distillation through attention.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Training data-efficient image transform- ers & distillation through attention

Reference 2020

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This paper cites Esser, P., Kulal, S., Blattmann, A., Entezari, R., M¨uller, J., Saini, H., Levi, Y ., Lorenz, D., Sauer, A., Boesel, F., et al.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers Esser, P., Kulal, S., Blattmann, A., Entezari, R., M¨uller, J., Saini, H., Levi, Y ., Lorenz, D., Sauer, A., Boesel, F., et al

Reference 2021

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Observation 71d1e575-f4af-4a1e-8231-19ee730fd4bc · outbound

This paper cites GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers GQA: Training Generalized Multi-Query Transformer Models from Multi-Head Checkpoints

Reference 2023

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Observation 8af8114e-bc56-40e5-9dba-d72d80ca3b10 · outbound

This paper cites $V_kD:$ Improving Knowledge Distillation using Orthogonal Projections.

Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers $V_kD:$ Improving Knowledge Distillation using Orthogonal Projections

Reference 2024

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Pith citing papers

Observation 66acbb21-a70f-4f7b-a051-e73e82b6bed4 · inbound

Contribution Weights: A Geometrical Analysis of Self-Attention Transformers cites this paper.

Contribution Weights: A Geometrical Analysis of Self-Attention Transformers Optimizing Knowledge Distillation in Transformers: Enabling Multi-Head Attention without Alignment Barriers

Reference 86

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