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Dataset distillation extracts a small set of synthetic training samples from a large dataset with the goal of achieving competitive performance on test data when trained on this sample. In this work, we tackle dataset distillation at its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yunzhen Feng , Ramakrishna Vedantam , Julia Kempe

We introduce a principled way of computing the Wasserstein distance between two distributions in a federated manner. Namely, we show how to estimate the Wasserstein distance between two samples stored and kept on different devices/clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Kimia Nadjahi , Liva Ralaivola

Time-series forecasting is fundamental across many domains, yet training accurate models often requires large-scale datasets and substantial computational resources. Dataset distillation offers a promising alternative by synthesizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuqi Li , Kuiye Ding , Chuanguang Yang , Hao Wang , Haoxuan Wang , Huiran Duan , Junming Liu , Yingli Tian

The maximum mean discrepancy and Wasserstein distance are popular distance measures between distributions and play important roles in many machine learning problems such as metric learning, generative modeling, domain adaption, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Dong Qiao , Jicong Fan

The task of dataset distillation aims to find a small set of synthetic images such that training a model on them reproduces the performance of the same model trained on a much larger dataset of real samples. Existing distillation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 George Cazenavette , Antonio Torralba , Vincent Sitzmann

A common feature of methods for analyzing samples of probability density functions is that they respect the geometry inherent to the space of densities. Once a metric is specified for this space, the Fr\'echet mean is typically used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-20 Alexander Petersen , Hans-Georg Müller

Spatio-temporal time series are widely used in real-world applications, including traffic prediction and weather forecasting. They are sequences of observations over extensive periods and multiple locations, naturally represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Taehyung Kwon , Yeonje Choi , Yeongho Kim , Kijung Shin

We develop a novel clustering method for distributional data, where each data point is regarded as a probability distribution on the real line. For distributional data, it has been challenging to develop a clustering method that utilizes…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-24 Ryo Okano , Masaaki Imaizumi

Dataset distillation offers a lightweight synthetic dataset for fast network training with promising test accuracy. To imitate the performance of the original dataset, most approaches employ bi-level optimization and the distillation space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Duo Su , Junjie Hou , Weizhi Gao , Yingjie Tian , Bowen Tang

Deep learning has grown tremendously over recent years, yielding state-of-the-art results in various fields. However, training such models requires huge amounts of data, increasing the computational time and cost. To address this, dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Murad Tukan , Alaa Maalouf , Margarita Osadchy

Dataset distillation is a method for reducing dataset sizes by learning a small number of synthetic samples containing all the information of a large dataset. This has several benefits like speeding up model training, reducing energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ilia Sucholutsky , Matthias Schonlau

Condensing large datasets into smaller synthetic counterparts has demonstrated its promise for image classification. However, previous research has overlooked a crucial concern in image recognition: ensuring that models trained on condensed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Qihang Zhou , Shenhao Fang , Shibo He , Wenchao Meng , Jiming Chen

Dataset distillation has become a popular method for compressing large datasets into smaller, more efficient representations while preserving critical information for model training. Data features are broadly categorized into two types:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Minh-Tuan Tran , Trung Le , Xuan-May Le , Thanh-Toan Do , Dinh Phung

Dataset distillation plays a crucial role in creating compact datasets with similar training performance compared with original large-scale ones. This is essential for addressing the challenges of data storage and training costs. Prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Yanqing Liu , Jianyang Gu , Kai Wang , Zheng Zhu , Kaipeng Zhang , Wei Jiang , Yang You

Wasserstein barycenters provide a geometrically meaningful way to aggregate probability distributions, built on the theory of optimal transport. They are difficult to compute in practice, however, leading previous work to restrict their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Lingxiao Li , Aude Genevay , Mikhail Yurochkin , Justin Solomon

This paper provides a simple procedure to fit generative networks to target distributions, with the goal of a small Wasserstein distance (or other optimal transport costs). The approach is based on two principles: (a) if the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Yucheng Chen , Matus Telgarsky , Chao Zhang , Bolton Bailey , Daniel Hsu , Jian Peng

Diffusion models achieve strong generation quality, diversity, and distribution coverage, but their performance often comes with expensive inference. In this work, we propose Stochastic Transition-Map Distillation (STMD), a teacher-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 George Rapakoulias , Peter Garud , Lingjiong Zhu , Panagiotis Tsiotras

We study the problem of the decentralized computation of entropy-regularized semi-discrete Wasserstein barycenters over a network. Building upon recent primal-dual approaches, we propose a sampling gradient quantization scheme that allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Roman Krawtschenko , César A. Uribe , Alexander Gasnikov , Pavel Dvurechensky

With the ongoing investment in data collection and communication technology in power systems, data-driven optimization has been established as a powerful tool for system operators to handle stochastic system states caused by weather- and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-18 Robert Mieth , Juan M. Morales , H. Vincent Poor

Dataset Distillation aims to compress a large dataset into a significantly more compact, synthetic one without compromising the performance of the trained models. To achieve this, existing methods use the agent model to extract information…