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arxiv: 2607.00916 · v1 · pith:CVYUMIBAnew · submitted 2026-07-01 · 💻 cs.CV

Condensing Large-Scale Datasets Directly with Minimal Information Loss

Xinyi Shang , Peng Sun , Bei Shi , Zixuan Wang , Tao Lin This is my paper

Pith reviewed 2026-07-02 13:57 UTC · model grok-4.3

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keywords dataset distillationinformation lossdistribution alignmentCIM frameworkImageNet-1K condensationsynthetic datasetsdual compression
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Directly minimizing the information gap between original and synthetic datasets enables higher-fidelity large-scale distillation than decoupled pipelines.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Existing dataset distillation methods use decoupled stages of squeezing data into a model, recovering images, and relabeling, but the paper shows that the back-and-forth compression creates severe information loss. This loss produces a distribution shift that turns the pre-trained model into an unreliable labeler and yields sub-optimal results. CIM replaces the flawed pipeline with a metric-driven process that directly quantifies and minimizes the gap between the distributions of the original and synthetic datasets. The direct alignment avoids the intermediate compression step and satisfies the conditions for effective relabeling. Experiments confirm the approach produces condensed data that trains models to higher accuracy with lower overhead.

Core claim

The implicit dual-compression process from data to model and back to images in existing pipelines inherently induces severe information loss that creates a distribution shift compromising the RELABEL strategy. CIM overcomes these flaws by abandoning the dual-compression paradigm and instead explicitly quantifying and minimizing the information gap between the original and synthetic datasets through direct alignment of data distributions, ensuring high-fidelity information condensation.

What carries the argument

CIM, the metric-driven framework that directly aligns distributions of original and synthetic datasets to minimize information gap without dual compression.

If this is right

  • Relabeling produces reliable labels once the distribution shift from dual compression is removed.
  • Distillation of ImageNet-1K at IPC=10 completes in 80 minutes on one GPU with higher final accuracy.
  • Cross-architecture generalization improves because the synthetic data retains more original information.
  • The method outperforms prior approaches such as NRR-DD and DELT on the same benchmarks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Direct distribution alignment may apply to other data reduction tasks where intermediate model compression creates similar shifts.
  • The demonstration of how dual compression harms relabeling could prompt checks on other multi-stage pipelines in machine learning.
  • Refining the information-gap metric itself could yield further gains in condensation quality.

Load-bearing premise

That the chosen metric accurately captures and allows reduction of the specific information losses that degrade the quality of synthetic data for downstream training.

What would settle it

Training a ResNet-18 on the CIM-distilled ImageNet-1K at IPC=10 and measuring Top-1 accuracy below 46 percent would indicate the alignment failed to reduce the claimed information loss.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.00916 by Bei Shi, Peng Sun, Tao Lin, Xinyi Shang, Zixuan Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Applying Relabel to ADD [53] and DataDAM [30]. We evaluate the distilled images with IPC = 10 during the distillation process. The results indicate that Relabel only assists the early-stage distilled datasets. Relabel has become a widely adopted and effective technique in dataset distillation, as demonstrated in recent works [33, 41, 49]. The core idea is to use a model pre-trained on the full real dataset… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Visualization of Feature Distributions for the Original and Distilled Datasets. The distilled datasets are optimized using state-of-the-art distillation techniques: SRe2L [49], G-VBSM [34], and RDED [40]. Orange, green, and blue points depict the first three classes of CIFAR-10, while ⋆ points represent the corresponding distilled datasets with images per class (IPC) of 50. The lighter shades represent the… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Distillation Process of Our CIM. First, IPC subsets are selected from the original data T , where each subset contains images denoted as {xj} N j=1; Then, for each image xe in the initial dis￾tilled data S, the RandomCrop is applied to generate views {xe n } N n=1. The information gap IG(xj , xe n ) is then minimized for each view. This process is itera￾tively performed for every distilled image xe; Compre… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Ablation study on each component in our CIM. We evaluate our CIM with different number M of compression iterations (4a), number N of images squeezed in one distilled image (4b), feature alignment layer (4c), and the information gap with respect to the number K of iterations(4d). The yellow •, red •, blue • and deep blue • denote CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Tiny-ImageNet and ImageNet-1k respectively [PITH_FULL_IM… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Application of continual learning on various datasets when IPC =10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of factor crop. H Experiment Results Comparison with more datasets and baselines. In addition to the experiments discussed in Section 5.2, we further benchmark our proposed CIM against a broader set of baselines, encompassing recent contributions [22, 34, 40, 50]. The outcomes, presented in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Visualization of continual learning on CIFAR-10 with IPC = 10. K Visualization Baselines. Within the scope of CIFAR-10 distillation under the IPC = 10 setting, we illustrate the visual representations of distilled datasets. This includes visualizations for ADD [53] in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visualization of continual learning on CIFAR-100 with IPC = 10. 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 200 Number of Classes 40 45 50 55 Top-1 Accuracy (%) SRe 2L CIM [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Visualization of continual learning on Tiny-ImageNet with IPC = 10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Visualization of initialized images before distilling on CIFAR-10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Visualization of initialized data before distilling on CIFAR-10 data showcases the mixture of 4 images per initial instance [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Synthetic data visualization on CIFAR-10 from ADD [53] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p033_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Synthetic data visualization on CIFAR-10 from DataDAM [30] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p034_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Synthetic data visualization on CIFAR-10 from DREAM [23] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Synthetic data visualization on CIFAR-10 from SRe2L [49] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p036_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Initialized real data visualization on CIFAR-10 with N = 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Initialized real data visualization on CIFAR-10 with N = 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p038_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Initialized real data visualization on CIFAR-10 with N = 9 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p039_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Initialized real data visualization on CIFAR-10 with N = 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: Initialized real data visualization on CIFAR-10 with N = 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p041_20.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: Synthetic data visualization on CIFAR-10 from CIM (Ours) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p042_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Synthetic data visualization on CIFAR-100 from CIM (Ours) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Synthetic data visualization on Tiny-ImageNet from CIM (Ours) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_23.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Recent advancements in scaling dataset distillation rely heavily on decoupled information extraction pipelines, comprising SQUEEZE, RECOVER, and RELABEL stages. Despite their scalability to large-scale datasets, these methods suffer from prohibitive computational overhead and poor cross-architecture generalization. In this paper, we reveal the root cause of these bottlenecks: the implicit dual-compression process, from data to model and back to images, inherently induces severe information loss. Crucially, we empirically and theoretically demonstrate that this loss creates a distribution shift that fundamentally compromises the widely adopted RELABEL strategy, transforming the pre-trained model into an unreliable labeler that yields sub-optimal labels. To overcome these critical flaws, we propose CIM, a novel, metric-driven framework that abandons the flawed dual-compression paradigm. Instead, CIM explicitly quantifies and minimizes the information gap between the original and synthetic datasets. By directly aligning the data distributions, our approach ensures high-fidelity information condensation and inherently satisfies the prerequisites for effective relabeling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CIM establishes a new state-of-the-art. Notably, it distills ImageNet-1K at an IPC=10 in merely 80 minutes on a single RTX-4090 GPU, achieving an unprecedented 48.7% Top-1 accuracy on ResNet-18 and significantly outperforming previous SOTA approaches, such as NRR-DD and DELT, by 2.6% and 2.9%, respectively. Our code is available at https://github.com/LINs-lab/CIM.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper identifies the dual-compression pipeline (SQUEEZE-RECOVER-RELABEL) in recent dataset distillation methods as the source of information loss and distribution shift that degrades the RELABEL stage. It proposes CIM, a metric-driven approach that directly quantifies and minimizes the information gap between original and synthetic datasets to achieve high-fidelity condensation without the flawed intermediate steps. Experiments on ImageNet-1K at IPC=10 report 48.7% Top-1 accuracy on ResNet-18 in 80 minutes on a single RTX-4090, outperforming NRR-DD and DELT.

Significance. If the claimed theoretical demonstration of distribution shift and the empirical results hold, CIM could substantially improve scalability and cross-architecture performance of dataset distillation for large-scale datasets. The reported single-GPU runtime and accuracy gains would represent a practical advance over prior decoupled pipelines.

minor comments (4)
  1. §3: The definition of the information-gap metric should include an explicit statement of whether it is computed in feature space or pixel space and how the alignment loss is balanced against the condensation objective.
  2. Table 2: The cross-architecture transfer results lack error bars or multiple random seeds; reporting standard deviation over at least three runs would strengthen the generalization claim.
  3. §4.2: The theoretical argument for why direct alignment satisfies the prerequisites for relabeling is sketched at a high level; a short derivation or inequality showing that the minimized gap bounds the labeler mismatch would clarify the link.
  4. Figure 4: The visualization of distribution shift would benefit from a quantitative metric (e.g., MMD or FID) alongside the qualitative plots to allow direct comparison with the CIM objective.

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We thank the referee for the thorough summary of our work and the recommendation of minor revision. No specific major comments were raised in the report.

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full rationale

The paper presents CIM as a direct metric-driven minimization of the information gap between original and synthetic datasets, explicitly abandoning the prior dual-compression pipeline. The SOTA performance numbers (48.7% Top-1 on ResNet-18) are reported as empirical outcomes of this alignment on ImageNet-1K, with the distribution-shift critique supported by separate empirical and theoretical demonstration. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown reducing the central result to its own inputs by construction; the derivation chain remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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