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Researchers have long tried to minimize training costs in deep learning while maintaining strong generalization across diverse datasets. Emerging research on dataset distillation aims to reduce training costs by creating a small synthetic…

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

Dataset Distillation (DD) is an emerging technique that compresses large-scale datasets into significantly smaller synthesized datasets while preserving high test performance and enabling the efficient training of large models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Zheng Zhou , Wenquan Feng , Shuchang Lyu , Guangliang Cheng , Xiaowei Huang , Qi Zhao

Model distillation aims to distill the knowledge of a complex model into a simpler one. In this paper, we consider an alternative formulation called dataset distillation: we keep the model fixed and instead attempt to distill the knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Tongzhou Wang , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba , Alexei A. Efros

Deep learning (DL) offers potential improvements throughout the CAD tool-flow, one promising application being lithographic hotspot detection. However, DL techniques have been shown to be especially vulnerable to inference and training time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Kang Liu , Benjamin Tan , Gaurav Rajavendra Reddy , Siddharth Garg , Yiorgos Makris , Ramesh Karri

Practitioners commonly download pretrained machine learning models from open repositories and finetune them to fit specific applications. We show that this practice introduces a new risk of privacy backdoors. By tampering with a pretrained…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shanglun Feng , Florian Tramèr

Neural networks (NNs) are already deployed in hardware today, becoming valuable intellectual property (IP) as many hours are invested in their training and optimization. Therefore, attackers may be interested in copying, reverse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Mahdieh Grailoo , Zain Ul Abideen , Mairo Leier , Samuel Pagliarini

Backdoor attacks against CNNs represent a new threat against deep learning systems, due to the possibility of corrupting the training set so to induce an incorrect behaviour at test time. To avoid that the trainer recognises the presence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Mauro Barni , Kassem Kallas , Benedetta Tondi

Dataset distillation compresses a large dataset into a small synthetic dataset such that learning on the synthetic dataset approximates learning on the original. Training on the distilled dataset can be performed in as little as one step of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Connor Wilhelm , Dan Ventura

Dataset distillation reduces the network training cost by synthesizing small and informative datasets from large-scale ones. Despite the success of the recent dataset distillation algorithms, three drawbacks still limit their wider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Kai Wang , Jianyang Gu , Daquan Zhou , Zheng Zhu , Wei Jiang , Yang You

Offline reinforcement learning often requires a quality dataset that we can train a policy on. However, in many situations, it is not possible to get such a dataset, nor is it easy to train a policy to perform well in the actual environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jonathan Light , Yuanzhe Liu , Ziniu Hu

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize a compact proxy dataset that is unreadable or non-raw from the original dataset for privacy protection and highly efficient learning. However, previous approaches typically adopt a single-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qianxin Xia , Zhiyong Shu , Wenbo Jiang , Jiawei Du , Jielei Wang , Guoming Lu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made tremendous progress in the past ten years and have been applied in various critical applications. However, recent studies have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xinrui Liu , Yajie Wang , Yu-an Tan , Kefan Qiu , Yuanzhang Li

Model-based deep learning has achieved astounding successes due in part to the availability of large-scale real-world data. However, processing such massive amounts of data comes at a considerable cost in terms of computations, storage,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Jiawei Du , Yidi Jiang , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Haizhou Li

As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in our lives, people are enjoying the convenience it brings, but they are also facing hidden threats, such as data poisoning and adversarial attacks. These threats can have disastrous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yong Li , Han Gao

Dataset Distillation aims to distill an entire dataset's knowledge into a few synthetic images. The idea is to synthesize a small number of synthetic data points that, when given to a learning algorithm as training data, result in a model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 George Cazenavette , Tongzhou Wang , Antonio Torralba , Alexei A. Efros , Jun-Yan Zhu

Although deep neural networks (DNNs) have made rapid progress in recent years, they are vulnerable in adversarial environments. A malicious backdoor could be embedded in a model by poisoning the training dataset, whose intention is to make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Yinpeng Dong , Xiao Yang , Zhijie Deng , Tianyu Pang , Zihao Xiao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Dataset distillation aims to synthesize small datasets with little information loss from original large-scale ones for reducing storage and training costs. Recent state-of-the-art methods mainly constrain the sample synthesis process by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yanqing Liu , Jianyang Gu , Kai Wang , Zheng Zhu , Wei Jiang , Yang You

Diffusion models are state-of-the-art deep learning empowered generative models that are trained based on the principle of learning forward and reverse diffusion processes via progressive noise-addition and denoising. To gain a better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Sheng-Yen Chou , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

Dataset distillation aims to compress large datasets into compact yet highly informative subsets that preserve the training behavior of the original data. While this concept has gained traction in classification, its potential for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Tobias Dietz , Brian B. Moser , Tobias Nauen , Federico Raue , Stanislav Frolov , Andreas Dengel

In this paper, we propose difficulty-guided sampling (DGS) to bridge the target gap between the distillation objective and the downstream task, therefore improving the performance of dataset distillation. Deep neural networks achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Mingzhuo Li , Guang Li , Linfeng Ye , Jiafeng Mao , Takahiro Ogawa , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Miki Haseyama