Enhancing Dataset Distillation via Label Inconsistency Elimination and Learning Pattern Refinement

TL;DR

This paper introduces M-DATM, an improved dataset distillation method that eliminates label inconsistency and refines learning patterns, achieving top results in the ECCV-2024 challenge.

Contribution

It proposes modifications to DATM by removing soft labels and reducing matching range, enhancing dataset distillation performance.

Findings

Achieved 0.4061 accuracy on CIFAR-100

Achieved 0.1831 accuracy on Tiny ImageNet

Ranked 1st in ECCV-2024 Data Distillation Challenge

Abstract

Dataset Distillation (DD) seeks to create a condensed dataset that, when used to train a model, enables the model to achieve performance similar to that of a model trained on the entire original dataset. It relieves the model training from processing massive data and thus reduces the computation resources, storage, and time costs. This paper illustrates our solution that ranks 1st in the ECCV-2024 Data Distillation Challenge (track 1). Our solution, Modified Difficulty-Aligned Trajectory Matching (M-DATM), introduces two key modifications to the original state-of-the-art method DATM: (1) the soft labels learned by DATM do not achieve one-to-one correspondence with the counterparts generated by the official evaluation script, so we remove the soft labels technique to alleviate such inconsistency; (2) since the removal of soft labels makes it harder for the synthetic dataset to learn late trajectory information, particularly on Tiny ImageNet, we reduce the matching range, allowing the synthetic data to concentrate more on the easier patterns. In the final evaluation, our M-DATM achieved accuracies of 0.4061 and 0.1831 on the CIFAR-100 and Tiny ImageNet datasets, ranking 1st in the Fixed Images Per Class (IPC) Track.