Informatics Institute faculty member Behçet Uğur Töreyin and research assistant Reyhan Kevser Keser coauthored paper titled  'Averager Student: Distillation from Undistillable Teacher' in 'ICL 2023 Tiny Papers' on 29 May 2023.

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Substitute links: https://openreview.net/forum?id=4isz71_aZN , https://github.com/rkevser/AveragerStudent

Abstract: Today, some companies release their black-box model as a service for users, where users can see the model’s output corresponding to their input. However, these models can be stolen via knowledge distillation by malicious users. Recently, undistillable teacher (Ma et al., 2021) is introduced in order to prevent the knowledge leakage. In this study, with the aim of contributing to solutions for model intellectual property (IP) protection, we propose a novel method which improves the distillation from an undistillable teacher whose goal is make the distillation difficult for students, with the purpose of model protection. The codes are released at https://github.com/rkevser/AveragerStudent.

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Faculty members and students conduct research supported by national and international organızatıons in the fields of electromagnetic fields, communication systems/regulations, computational materials design, computational chemistry/biology, cryptography, signal/data processing/visualization, big data management, climate and ocean sciences, 

  • The paper titled “Non-Invasive Complete Hemodynamic Model to Investigate the Effect of Multi-Stenosis in Patient-Specific Coronary Arteries”, jointly prepared by research assistants Hacer Duzman and E. Cenk Ersan, andProf. Dr. M. Serdar Çelebi from the Computational Science and Engineering Program, has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the ESM’25. (22-24 Oct. 2025 Belgium)
  • Hacer Duzman and Muhammed Enis Şen, PhD students of Computational Science and Engineering Program, received awards in the "5 Minute Thesis Competition" organized at the "Başarım 2024 8th National High Performance Computing Conference".

There is also a High Performance Computing Laboratory established with the support of the State Planning Organization within the Institute.