Dataset Distillation with Infinitely Wide Convolutional Networks

Timothy Nguyen, Roman Novak, Lechao Xiao, Jaehoon Lee

Keywords: dataset distillation, infinite-width limit, convolutional neural networks, kernel ridge-regression, meta-learning, feature learning

TL;DR: We achieve state of the art dataset distillation results on a variety of datasets using large-scale distributed metalearning with neural kernels.

Abstract: The effectiveness of machine learning algorithms arises from being able to extract useful features from large amounts of data. As model and dataset sizes increase, dataset distillation methods that compress large datasets into significantly smaller yet highly performant ones will become valuable in terms of training efficiency and useful feature extraction. To that end, we apply a novel distributed kernel-based meta-learning framework to achieve state-of-the-art results for dataset distillation using infinitely wide convolutional neural networks. For instance, using only 10 datapoints (0.02% of original dataset), we obtain over 65% test accuracy on CIFAR-10 image classification task, a dramatic improvement over the previous best test accuracy of 40%. Our state-of-the-art results extend across many other settings for MNIST, Fashion-MNIST, CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and SVHN. Furthermore, we perform some preliminary analyses of our distilled datasets to shed light on how they differ from naturally occurring data.

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