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Dataset distillation aims to distill the knowledge of a large-scale real dataset into small yet informative synthetic data such that a model trained on it performs as well as a model trained on the full dataset. Despite recent progress,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Ahmad Sajedi , Samir Khaki , Lucy Z. Liu , Ehsan Amjadian , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Deep metric learning aims to transform input data into an embedding space, where similar samples are close while dissimilar samples are far apart from each other. In practice, samples of new categories arrive incrementally, which requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Gao-Dong Liu , Wan-Lei Zhao , Jie Zhao

A very simple way to improve the performance of almost any machine learning algorithm is to train many different models on the same data and then to average their predictions. Unfortunately, making predictions using a whole ensemble of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-10 Geoffrey Hinton , Oriol Vinyals , Jeff Dean

Ensemble knowledge distillation can extract knowledge from multiple teacher models and encode it into a single student model. Many existing methods learn and distill the student model on labeled data only. However, the teacher models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

Dataset distillation has emerged as a strategy to overcome the hurdles associated with large datasets by learning a compact set of synthetic data that retains essential information from the original dataset. While distilled data can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 William Yang , Ye Zhu , Zhiwei Deng , Olga Russakovsky

Ensembling is a universally useful approach to boost the performance of machine learning models. However, individual models in an ensemble were traditionally trained independently in separate stages without information access about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Hanhan Li , Joe Yue-Hei Ng , Paul Natsev

Ensembles of machine learning models yield improved system performance as well as robust and interpretable uncertainty estimates; however, their inference costs may often be prohibitively high. \emph{Ensemble Distribution Distillation} is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Max Ryabinin , Andrey Malinin , Mark Gales

Techniques such as ensembling and distillation promise model quality improvements when paired with almost any base model. However, due to increased test-time cost (for ensembles) and increased complexity of the training pipeline (for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Rohan Anil , Gabriel Pereyra , Alexandre Passos , Robert Ormandi , George E. Dahl , Geoffrey E. Hinton

Neural networks can learn spurious correlations in the data, often leading to performance degradation for underrepresented subgroups. Studies have demonstrated that the disparity is amplified when knowledge is distilled from a complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Patrik Kenfack , Ulrich Aïvodji , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

In this paper, we propose that small models may not need to absorb the cost of pre-training to reap its benefits. Instead, they can capitalize on the astonishing results achieved by modern, enormous models to a surprising degree. We observe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sean Farhat , Deming Chen

Distillation is the task of replacing a complicated machine learning model with a simpler model that approximates the original [BCNM06,HVD15]. Despite many practical applications, basic questions about the extent to which models can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Enric Boix-Adsera

The aim of dataset distillation is to encode the rich features of an original dataset into a tiny dataset. It is a promising approach to accelerate neural network training and related studies. Different approaches have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zongxiong Chen , Jiahui Geng , Derui Zhu , Herbert Woisetschlaeger , Qing Li , Sonja Schimmler , Ruben Mayer , Chunming Rong

This paper presents a novel knowledge distillation based model compression framework consisting of a student ensemble. It enables distillation of simultaneously learnt ensemble knowledge onto each of the compressed student models. Each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Devesh Walawalkar , Zhiqiang Shen , Marios Savvides

Most dataset distillation methods struggle to accommodate large-scale datasets due to their substantial computational and memory requirements. Recent research has begun to explore scalable disentanglement methods. However, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Zhiheng Ma , Anjia Cao , Funing Yang , Yihong Gong , Xing Wei

The popularity of deep learning has led to the curation of a vast number of massive and multifarious datasets. Despite having close-to-human performance on individual tasks, training parameter-hungry models on large datasets poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Noveen Sachdeva , Julian McAuley

Often the best performing deep neural models are ensembles of multiple base-level networks. Unfortunately, the space required to store these many networks, and the time required to execute them at test-time, prohibits their use in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Zhiqiang Shen , Zhankui He , Xiangyang Xue

Diffusion Models~(DMs) have emerged as the dominant approach in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), owing to their remarkable performance in tasks such as text-to-image synthesis. However, practical DMs, such as stable diffusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuhui Fan , Zhangkai Wu , Hongyu Wu

Model distillation is an effective and widely used technique to transfer knowledge from a teacher to a student network. The typical application is to transfer from a powerful large network or ensemble to a small network, that is better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Ying Zhang , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Huchuan Lu

Deploying medical image segmentation models in routine clinical workflows is often constrained by on-premises infrastructure, where computational resources are fixed and cloud-based inference may be restricted by governance and security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Qizhen Lan , Aaron Choi , Jun Ma , Bo Wang , Zhaogming Zhao , Xiaoqian Jiang , Yu-Chun Hsu

Diffusion models are central to modern generative modeling, and understanding how they balance memorization and generalization is critical for reliable deployment. Recent work has shown that memorization in diffusion models is shaped by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bingqing Jiang , Difan Zou