teacher model performance is lower than student model performance?

[JayYangSS]

Hi, I found test_cfg=dict(inference_on="student") in your config file, which means you test the student model as your final performance. I set test_cfg=dict(inference_on="teacher") and find that the performance of teacher model is much lower than student model. Is this normal？ Have you test the teacher model performance? which one performs better?

[MendelXu]

It is not normal. In fact, the teacher model should achieve similar performance to the student model at the end of the training process.

[lihuikenny]

目前来看，我训练自己的数据集，teacher model效果要比student 效果AP50大约高2个点左右。 @MendelXu @JayYangSS