Knowledge distillation

Knowledge distillation - machine learning method to transfer knowledge from a large model to a smaller one. Article “Knowledge distillation” in English Wikipedia has 33.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 26 references and 7 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Knowledge distillation” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Knowledge distillation”, its content was written by 25 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 59 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in English Wikipedia and cited 171 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17724 in February 2021
• Global: #25174 in February 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #51766 in January 2025
• Global: #82046 in February 2025

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	German (de) Wissensdestillation		34.1172
2	English (en) Knowledge distillation		33.6372
3	Catalan (ca) Destil·lació del coneixement		32.2129
4	Vietnamese (vi) Chưng cất tri thức		29.74
5	Arabic (ar) تقطير المعرفة		26.9772
6	Persian (fa) تقطیر دانش		23.7417
7	French (fr) Distillation des connaissances		23.3264
8	Korean (ko) 지식 증류		20.8498
9	Portuguese (pt) Destilação de conhecimento		19.7336
10	Japanese (ja) 知識蒸留		17.6692

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Knowledge distillation" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Knowledge distillation		242 128
2	Chinese (zh) 知識蒸餾		12 394
3	Japanese (ja) 知識蒸留		4 564
4	French (fr) Distillation des connaissances		2 203
5	Korean (ko) 지식 증류		1 330
6	Persian (fa) تقطیر دانش		1 328
7	German (de) Wissensdestillation		644
8	Vietnamese (vi) Chưng cất tri thức		226
9	Portuguese (pt) Destilação de conhecimento		133
10	Catalan (ca) Destil·lació del coneixement		96

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Knowledge distillation" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Knowledge distillation		3 802
2	Chinese (zh) 知識蒸餾		675
3	French (fr) Distillation des connaissances		110
4	German (de) Wissensdestillation		109
5	Japanese (ja) 知識蒸留		109
6	Korean (ko) 지식 증류		68
7	Portuguese (pt) Destilação de conhecimento		21
8	Arabic (ar) تقطير المعرفة		18
9	Persian (fa) تقطیر دانش		16
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chưng cất tri thức		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Knowledge distillation" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Knowledge distillation		25
2	Chinese (zh) 知識蒸餾		7
3	German (de) Wissensdestillation		6
4	Persian (fa) تقطیر دانش		4
5	Japanese (ja) 知識蒸留		4
6	French (fr) Distillation des connaissances		3
7	Korean (ko) 지식 증류		3
8	Portuguese (pt) Destilação de conhecimento		3
9	Arabic (ar) تقطير المعرفة		2
10	Catalan (ca) Destil·lació del coneixement		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Knowledge distillation" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Chinese (zh) 知識蒸餾		5
2	English (en) Knowledge distillation		2
3	German (de) Wissensdestillation		1
4	Arabic (ar) تقطير المعرفة		0
5	Catalan (ca) Destil·lació del coneixement		0
6	Persian (fa) تقطیر دانش		0
7	French (fr) Distillation des connaissances		0
8	Japanese (ja) 知識蒸留		0
9	Korean (ko) 지식 증류		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Destilação de conhecimento		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Knowledge distillation" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Korean (ko) 지식 증류		132
2	English (en) Knowledge distillation		24
3	Arabic (ar) تقطير المعرفة		3
4	Chinese (zh) 知識蒸餾		3
5	German (de) Wissensdestillation		2
6	French (fr) Distillation des connaissances		2
7	Japanese (ja) 知識蒸留		2
8	Catalan (ca) Destil·lació del coneixement		1
9	Persian (fa) تقطیر دانش		1
10	Vietnamese (vi) Chưng cất tri thức		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic تقطير المعرفة
ca	Catalan Destil·lació del coneixement
de	German Wissensdestillation
en	English Knowledge distillation
fa	Persian تقطیر دانش
fr	French Distillation des connaissances
ja	Japanese 知識蒸留
ko	Korean 지식 증류
pt	Portuguese Destilação de conhecimento
vi	Vietnamese Chưng cất tri thức
zh	Chinese 知識蒸餾

Best Rank

English: #51766 01.2025

Global: #82046 02.2025

Best Rank

English: #17724 02.2021

Global: #25174 02.2025

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