# Distillation for recommender systems

Area: [Knowledge distillation](https://mlsanity.com/distill/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/distill/distillation-for-recommender-systems/

## Key facts

- Distillation for recommender systems: 34 papers on arXiv since 2021 (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- 9 of its 34 mapped papers (26%) cite “Topology Distillation for Recommender System” (2021, arXiv 2106.08700).
- 6 of its 34 mapped papers (18%) cite “Dual Correction Strategy for Ranking Distillation in Top-N Recommender System” (2021, arXiv 2109.03459).

## Most cited here

- [Topology Distillation for Recommender System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.08700/) (2021), cited by 9 papers here
- [Dual Correction Strategy for Ranking Distillation in Top-N Recommender System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.03459/) (2021), cited by 6 papers here
- [Distillation from Heterogeneous Models for Top-K Recommendation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.01130/) (2023), cited by 5 papers here
- [Unbiased Knowledge Distillation for Recommendation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.14729/) (2022), cited by 4 papers here
- [Can Small Language Models be Good Reasoners for Sequential Recommendation?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.04260/) (2024), cited by 2 papers here
- [Scene-adaptive Knowledge Distillation for Sequential Recommendation via Differentiable Architecture Search](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.07173/) (2021), cited by 1 papers here
- [Cross-Task Knowledge Distillation in Multi-Task Recommendation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.09852/) (2022), cited by 1 papers here
- [Leave No One Behind: Online Self-Supervised Self-Distillation for Sequential Recommendation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.07219/) (2024), cited by 1 papers here
- [Knowledge Distillation Approaches for Accurate and Efficient Recommender System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.13952/) (2024), cited by 1 papers here
- [Bridging the Gap: Unpacking the Hidden Challenges in Knowledge Distillation for Online Ranking Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.14678/) (2024), cited by 1 papers here