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TALAS: Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Embedding Distillation
来源日期（仅到月份） 2026-07
来源记录日期 2026-07
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Knowledge Distillation (KD) has established itself as a pivotal technique for compressing large pre-trained language models. However, existing methods that force a student to strictly mimic the teacher’s sentence embeddings or internal features often incur prohibitive computational costs and yield suboptimal performance due to the inherent capacity gap. To address these challenges, we propose TALAS (Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Sharpness-aware minimization), a unified framework that synergizes hierarchical (multi-layer) alignment with robust optimization. First, we introduce a Teacher-Anchored mechanism that selectively distills final sentence embeddings only into the student’s upper layers, thereby reducing overhead while respecting capacity constraints. Second, we bridge the semantic gap in lower layers via Layer-Aligned Self-Distillation, which propagates knowledge top-down using internal geometric relational constraints in the embedding space. Finally, to prevent the student from memorizing point-wise teacher noise, we integrate Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization (ASAM) into the training objective, guiding the model towards flat minima for enhanced generalization. Empirical results on standard sentence embedding benchmarks demonstrate that TALAS consistently outperforms strong distillation baselines while achieving superior training efficiency in terms of computational cost and memory footprint.
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TALAS: Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization for Embedding Distillation
Knowledge Distillation (KD) has established itself as a pivotal technique for compressing large pre-trained language models. However, existing methods that force a student to strictly mimic the teacher’s sentence embeddings or internal features often incur prohibitive computational costs and yield suboptimal performance due to the inherent capacity gap. To address these challenges, we propose TALAS (Teacher-Anchored Layer Alignment with Sharpness-aware minimization), a unified framework that synergizes hierarchical (multi-layer) alignment with robust optimization. First, we introduce a Teacher-Anchored mechanism that selectively distills final sentence embeddings only into the student’s upper layers, thereby reducing overhead while respecting capacity constraints. Second, we bridge the semantic gap in lower layers via Layer-Aligned Self-Distillation, which propagates knowledge top-down using internal geometric relational constraints in the embedding space. Finally, to prevent the student from memorizing point-wise teacher noise, we integrate Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Minimization (ASAM) into the training objective, guiding the model towards flat minima for enhanced generalization. Empirical results on standard sentence embedding benchmarks demonstrate that TALAS consistently outperforms strong distillation baselines while achieving superior training efficiency in terms of computational cost and memory footprint.
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