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Learning a good state representation is a critical skill when dealing with multiple tasks in Reinforcement Learning as it allows for transfer and better generalization between tasks. However, defining what constitute a useful representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Valentin Guillet , Dennis G. Wilson , Carlos Aguilar-Melchor , Emmanuel Rachelson

Recently, deep reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its feasibility in solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). The learning-to-rank techniques have been studied in the field of information retrieval. While several COPs can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Honguk Woo , Hyunsung Lee , Sangwoo Cho

In the vision domain, dataset distillation arises as a technique to condense a large dataset into a smaller synthetic one that exhibits a similar result in the training process. While image data presents an extensive literature of…

Knowledge distillation is the procedure of transferring "knowledge" from a large model (the teacher) to a more compact one (the student), often being used in the context of model compression. When both models have the same architecture,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Minh Pham , Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Chinmay Hegde

In this paper, we argue that mutual distillation between reinforcement learning policies serves as an implicit regularization, preventing them from overfitting to irrelevant features. We highlight two separate contributions: (i)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zhengpeng Xie , Jiahang Cao , Changwei Wang , Fan Yang , Marco Hutter , Qiang Zhang , Jianxiong Zhang , Renjing Xu

Real-world contains an overwhelmingly large number of object classes, learning all of which at once is infeasible. Few shot learning is a promising learning paradigm due to its ability to learn out of order distributions quickly with only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Jathushan Rajasegaran , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Mubarak Shah

Dataset distillation has emerged as a promising approach in deep learning, enabling efficient training with small synthetic datasets derived from larger real ones. Particularly, distribution matching-based distillation methods attract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wenxiao Deng , Wenbin Li , Tianyu Ding , Lei Wang , Hongguang Zhang , Kuihua Huang , Jing Huo , Yang Gao

Recent advances in dataset distillation have led to solutions in two main directions. The conventional batch-to-batch matching mechanism is ideal for small-scale datasets and includes bi-level optimization methods on models and syntheses,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Zhiqiang Shen , Ammar Sherif , Zeyuan Yin , Shitong Shao

Knowledge distillation has emerged as an effective strategy for compressing large language models' (LLMs) knowledge into smaller, more efficient student models. However, standard one-shot distillation methods often produce suboptimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Kushal Jain , Piyushi Goyal , Kumar Shridhar

Transformer-based reinforcement learning has emerged as a strong candidate for sequential control in residential energy management. In particular, the Decision Transformer can learn effective battery dispatch policies from historical data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Pascal Henrich , Jonas Sievers , Maximilian Beichter , Thomas Blank , Ralf Mikut , Veit Hagenmeyer

Dataset distillation or condensation refers to compressing a large-scale dataset into a much smaller one, enabling models trained on this synthetic dataset to generalize effectively on real data. Tackling this challenge, as defined, relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ruonan Yu , Songhua Liu , Jingwen Ye , Xinchao Wang

Reinforcement learning has emerged as a powerful tool for improving diffusion-based text-to-image models, but existing methods are largely limited to single-task optimization. Extending RL to multiple tasks is challenging: joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Quanhao Li , Junqiu Yu , Kaixun Jiang , Yujie Wei , Zhen Xing , Pandeng Li , Ruihang Chu , Shiwei Zhang , Yu Liu , Zuxuan Wu

While Federated Learning (FL) is gaining popularity for training machine learning models in a decentralized fashion, numerous challenges persist, such as asynchronization, computational expenses, data heterogeneity, and gradient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Chun-Yin Huang , Ruinan Jin , Can Zhao , Daguang Xu , Xiaoxiao Li

In recent years, dataset distillation has provided a reliable solution for data compression, where models trained on the resulting smaller synthetic datasets achieve performance comparable to those trained on the original datasets. To…

Recent advances in robotic foundation models have enabled the development of generalist policies that can adapt to diverse tasks. While these models show impressive flexibility, their performance heavily depends on the quality of their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Charles Xu , Qiyang Li , Jianlan Luo , Sergey Levine

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

Traditional approaches to RL have focused on learning decision policies directly from episodic decisions, while slowly and implicitly learning the semantics of compositional representations needed for generalization. While some approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Chris Lengerich , Gabriel Synnaeve , Amy Zhang , Hugh Leather , Kurt Shuster , François Charton , Charysse Redwood

Dataset Distillation has emerged as a technique for compressing large datasets into smaller synthetic counterparts, facilitating downstream training tasks. In this paper, we study the impact of bias inside the original dataset on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Justin Cui , Ruochen Wang , Yuanhao Xiong , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Dataset distillation provides an effective approach to reduce memory and computational costs by optimizing a compact dataset that achieves performance comparable to the full original. However, for large-scale datasets and complex deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xinhao Zhong , Shuoyang Sun , Xulin Gu , Zhaoyang Xu , Yaowei Wang , Min Zhang , Bin Chen

Dataset Distillation (DD), a newly emerging field, aims at generating much smaller but efficient synthetic training datasets from large ones. Existing DD methods based on gradient matching achieve leading performance; however, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Lei Zhang , Jie Zhang , Bowen Lei , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Xiang Pan , Bo Zhao , Caiwen Ding , Yao Li , Dongkuan Xu