# MixSKD: Self-Knowledge Distillation from Mixup for Image Recognition Source: [MixSKD: Self-Knowledge Distillation from Mixup for Image Recognition]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-26T00:27:36.356Z Authors: Chuanguang Yang, Zhulin An, Helong Zhou, Linhang Cai, Xiang Zhi, Jiwen Wu, Yongjun Xu, Qian Zhang Published: 2022-08-11T11:57:26.000Z ## Abstract Unlike the conventional Knowledge Distillation (KD), Self-KD allows a network to learn knowledge from itself without any guidance from extra networks. This paper proposes to perform Self-KD from image Mixture (MixSKD), which integrates these two techniques into a unified framework. MixSKD mutually distills feature maps and probability distributions between the random pair of original images and their mixup images in a meaningful way. Therefore, it guides the network to learn cross-image knowledge by modelling supervisory signals from mixup images. Moreover, we construct a self-teacher network by aggregating multi-stage feature maps for providing soft labels to supervise the backbone classifier, further improving the efficacy of self-boosting. Experiments on image classification and transfer learning to object detection and semantic segmentation demonstrate that MixSKD outperforms other state-of-the-art Self-KD and data augmentation methods. The code is available at https://github.com/winycg/Self-KD-Lib. ## Recorded benchmark results A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage. - [Image Classification on ImageNet-1k](): Image Classification; ImageNet-1K; Top-1 Acc: 78.8. ## Original sources and implementation [Original paper]() [PDF]()