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It is often desirable to distill the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) into smaller student models due to compute and memory constraints. One way to do this for classification tasks is via dataset synthesis, which can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Abhishek Divekar , Greg Durrett

Recent studies have highlighted the benefits of generating multiple synthetic datasets for supervised learning, from increased accuracy to more effective model selection and uncertainty estimation. These benefits have clear empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ossi Räisä , Antti Honkela

Deep learning has made remarkable progress recently, largely due to the availability of large, well-labeled datasets. However, the training on such datasets elevates costs and computational demands. To address this, various techniques like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Zhenghao Zhao , Yuzhang Shang , Junyi Wu , Yan Yan

This paper provides a detailed survey of synthetic data techniques. We first discuss the expected goals of using synthetic data in data augmentation, which can be divided into four parts: 1) Improving Diversity, 2) Data Balancing, 3)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hsin-Yu Chang , Pei-Yu Chen , Tun-Hsiang Chou , Chang-Sheng Kao , Hsuan-Yun Yu , Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

Recent works in dataset distillation seek to minimize training expenses by generating a condensed synthetic dataset that encapsulates the information present in a larger real dataset. These approaches ultimately aim to attain test accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Samir Khaki , Ahmad Sajedi , Kai Wang , Lucy Z. Liu , Yuri A. Lawryshyn , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Synthetic training data has gained prominence in numerous learning tasks and scenarios, offering advantages such as dataset augmentation, generalization evaluation, and privacy preservation. Despite these benefits, the efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianhao Yuan , Jie Zhang , Shuyang Sun , Philip Torr , Bo Zhao

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

Medical image annotation is constrained by privacy concerns and labor-intensive labeling, significantly limiting the performance and generalization of segmentation models. While mask-controllable diffusion models excel in synthesis, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Kunpeng Qiu , Zhiying Zhou , Yongxin Guo

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has accentuated the need for diverse, high-quality pre-training data. Synthetic data emerges as a viable solution to the challenges of data scarcity and inaccessibility. While previous literature has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hao Chen , Abdul Waheed , Xiang Li , Yidong Wang , Jindong Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Marah I. Abdin

Dataset distillation reduces the storage and computational consumption of training a network by generating a small surrogate dataset that encapsulates rich information of the original large-scale one. However, previous distillation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jianyang Gu , Saeed Vahidian , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Haonan Wang , Wei Jiang , Yang You , Yiran Chen

Dataset distillation compresses large training sets into compact synthetic datasets while preserving downstream performance. As modern systems increasingly operate on paired vision-language inputs, multimodal distillation must preserve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jongoh Jeong , Hoyong Kwon , Minseok Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Dataset distillation aims to compress training data while preserving training-aware knowledge, alleviating the reliance on large-scale datasets in modern model training. Dataset parameterization provides a more efficient storage structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chenyang Jiang , Zhengcen Li , Hang Zhao , Qiben Shan , Shaocong Wu , Jingyong Su

Finetuning large language models on instruction data is crucial for enhancing pre-trained knowledge and improving instruction-following capabilities. As instruction datasets proliferate, selecting optimal data for effective training becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Simon Yu , Liangyu Chen , Sara Ahmadian , Marzieh Fadaee

Accurate classification of clinical text often requires fine-tuning pre-trained language models, a process that is costly and time-consuming due to the need for high-quality data and expert annotators. Synthetic data generation offers an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ivan Lopez , Fateme Nateghi Haredasht , Kaitlin Caoili , Jonathan H Chen , Akshay Chaudhari

Leveraging the capabilities of Knowledge Distillation (KD) strategies, we devise a strategy to fight the recent retraction of face recognition datasets. Given a pretrained Teacher model trained on a real dataset, we show that carefully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Pedro C. Neto , Ivona Colakovic , Sašo Karakatič , Ana F. Sequeira

Self-supervised representation learning often uses data augmentations to induce some invariance to "style" attributes of the data. However, with downstream tasks generally unknown at training time, it is difficult to deduce a priori which…

Dataset distillation (DD) is an increasingly important technique that focuses on constructing a synthetic dataset capable of capturing the core information in training data to achieve comparable performance in models trained on the latter.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Yuanfang Peng , Jianyang Gu , Saeed Vahidian , Anthony Quinn , Fadwa Idlahcen , Yiran Chen

The rapid development of AI models has led to a growing emphasis on enhancing their capabilities for complex input data such as videos. While large-scale video datasets have been introduced to support this growth, the unique challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yinjie Zhao , Heng Zhao , Bihan Wen , Yew-Soon Ong , Joey Tianyi Zhou

Dataset distillation, a pragmatic approach in machine learning, aims to create a smaller synthetic dataset from a larger existing dataset. However, existing distillation methods primarily adopt a model-based paradigm, where the synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Binglin Zhou , Linhao Zhong , Wentao Chen

The effectiveness of machine learning algorithms arises from being able to extract useful features from large amounts of data. As model and dataset sizes increase, dataset distillation methods that compress large datasets into significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Timothy Nguyen , Roman Novak , Lechao Xiao , Jaehoon Lee