Table 1. Carbon footprints of Teacher (ResNet18) and Student (MobileNetV2) model before KD (top two rows), traditional KD [26] and Ours approach on three different datasets.

↑ (↓) means higher (lower) is better.

	CIFAR 10			CIFAR 10			Tiny ImageNet
Method	Accuracy (%) ↑	Energy (kWh) ↓	CO2_eq (g) ↓	Accuracy (%) ↑	Energy (kWh) ↓	CO2_eq (g) ↓	Accuracy (%) ↑	Energy (kWh) ↓	CO2_eq (g) ↓
Teacher	95.04	0.28	74.25	76.03	0.25	65.55	63.39	1.43	413.60
Student	90.52	0.16	45.02	67.80	0.16	44.23	59.64	0.68	182.53
KD [26]	91.78	3.99	1173.44	69.70	3.80	1170.40	60.46	19.09	5595.31
Ours	91.67	0.21	61.76	69.40	0.20	61.60	60.53	1.02	304.88