arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 26

IDeaL: Data-Free Multi-Teacher Distillation via Improved Dead Leaves

The paper introduces IDeaL, a data‑free multi‑teacher distillation technique that generates teacher‑specific, improved samples using decorrelation losses at patch and image levels. By tailoring noise to each teacher, IDeaL produces strong student models that capture complementary teacher information and achieve results close to those distilled from real images. Experiments demonstrate that with only 1,000 images, students trained on IDeaL samples match or exceed the performance of students distilled from a 1,000‑image subset of ImageNet.

By Feyza Yavuz, Mert B\"ulent Sar{\i}y{\i}ld{\i}z, Diane Larlus
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago

Data Unlearning via Inverse Distillation

arXiv:2609.36099v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step matching models, including flow and diffusion models, produce high-quality outputs but incur substantial inference costs and may reproduce u...

By Aleksei Leonov, Nikita Kornilov, Zhenhe Zhang, Evgeny Burnaev, Iaroslav Koshelev, Alexander Korotin
arXiv AI
Aug 20

Learning-State-Aware Dynamic Generative Data Augmentation on Small-Scale Datasets

Learning-State-Aware Dynamic Generative Data Augmentation on Small-Scale Datasets proposes LSADA, a method that constructs a learning state for each sample based on its loss and loss‑decrease rate to determine a sample‑specific augmentation strength. LSADA also introduces a decoupled data augmentation and diffusion fusion strategy that applies strength‑controlled transformations to class‑relevant regions while generating diverse class‑irrelevant regions, progressively fusing them to enhance image diversity while preserving class semantics. Experiments on nine public datasets demonstrate that LSADA outperforms the current state‑of‑the‑art dynamic GDA method by an average of 4.5% on six natural image datasets and 2.5% on three medical image datasets.

By Ting Xiang, Chenxi Deng, Jinhui Zhao, Bingting Jiang, Ke Zhang, Changjian Chen, Zhuo Tang