{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/boosting-the-cross-architecture","title":"Boosting the Cross-Architecture Generalization of Dataset Distillation through an Empirical Study","arxiv_id":"2312.05598","date":"2023-12-09","proceeding":null,"authors":["Lirui Zhao","Yuxin Zhang","Fei Chao","Rongrong Ji"],"abstract":"The poor cross-architecture generalization of dataset distillation greatly weakens its practical significance. This paper attempts to mitigate this issue through an empirical study, which suggests that the synthetic datasets undergo an inductive bias towards the distillation model. Therefore, the evaluation model is strictly confined to having similar architectures of the distillation model. We propose a novel method of EvaLuation with distillation Feature (ELF), which utilizes features from intermediate layers of the distillation model for the cross-architecture evaluation. In this manner, the evaluation model learns from bias-free knowledge therefore its architecture becomes unfettered while retaining performance. By performing extensive experiments, we successfully prove that ELF can well enhance the cross-architecture generalization of current DD methods. Code of this project is at \\url{https://github.com/Lirui-Zhao/ELF}.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.05598v2","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.05598v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"boosting-the-cross-architecture","repo_url":"https://github.com/lirui-zhao/elf","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"dataset-distillation","task_name":"Dataset Distillation"},{"task_slug":"inductive-bias","task_name":"Inductive Bias"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}