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DREAM+: Efficient Dataset Distillation by Bidirectional Representative Matching
Yanqing Liu, Jianyang Gu, Kai Wang, Zheng Zhu, Kaipeng Zhang, Wei Jiang, Yang You
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 methods facilitate knowledge transfer by matching the gradients, embedding distributions, or training trajectories of synthetic images with those of the sampled original images. Although there are various matching objectives, currently the strategy for selecting original images is limited to naive random sampling. We argue that random sampling overlooks the evenness of the selected sample distribution, which may result in noisy or biased matching targets. Besides, the sample diversity is also not constrained by random sampling. Additionally, current methods predominantly focus on single-dimensional matching, where information is not fully utilized. To address these challenges, we propose a novel matching strategy called Dataset Distillation by Bidirectional REpresentAtive Matching (DREAM+), which selects representative original images for bidirectional matching. DREAM+ is applicable to a variety of mainstream dataset distillation frameworks and significantly reduces the number of distillation iterations by more than 15 times without affecting performance. Given sufficient training time, DREAM+ can further improve the performance and achieve state-of-the-art results. We have released the code at github.com/NUS-HPC-AI-Lab/DREAM+.
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