Awesome Dataset Distillation

Awesome Dataset Distillation provides the most comprehensive and detailed information on the Dataset Distillation field.
Dataset distillation is the task of synthesizing a small dataset such that models trained on it achieve high performance on the original large dataset. A dataset distillation algorithm takes as input a large real dataset to be distilled (training set), and outputs a small synthetic distilled dataset, which is evaluated via testing models trained on this distilled dataset on a separate real dataset (validation/test set). A good small distilled dataset is not only useful in dataset understanding, but has various applications (e.g., continual learning, privacy, neural architecture search, etc.). This task was first introduced in the paper Dataset Distillation [Tongzhou Wang et al., '18], along with a proposed algorithm using backpropagation through optimization steps. Then the task was first extended to the real-world datasets in the paper Medical Dataset Distillation [Guang Li et al., '19], which also explored the privacy preservation possibilities of dataset distillation. In the paper Dataset Condensation [Bo Zhao et al., '20], gradient matching was first introduced and greatly promoted the development of the dataset distillation field.
In recent years (2022-now), dataset distillation has gained increasing attention in the research community, across many institutes and labs. More papers are now being published each year. These wonderful researches have been constantly improving dataset distillation and exploring its various variants and applications.
This project is curated and maintained by Guang Li, Bo Zhao, and Tongzhou Wang.
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Latest Updates
- [2026/07/08] FD2: A Dedicated Framework for Fine-Grained Dataset Distillation (Hongxu Ma & Guang Li et al., ECCV 2026) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- [2026/07/08] Adaptive Latent Trajectory Anchoring for Action Segmentation Dataset Condensation (Arthème Gauthier-Villars & Guodong Ding et al., ECCV 2026) :book:
- [2026/07/08] Condensing Large-Scale Datasets Directly with Minimal Information Loss (Xinyi Shang & Peng Sun & Bei Shi et al., ECCV 2026) :octocat: :book:
- [2026/07/08] Rank-Aware Hyperbolic Alignment for Vision-Language Dataset Distillation (Jongoh Jeong et al., ECCV 2026) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- [2026/07/08] Structural Assessment for Understanding and Guiding Dataset Distillation in Discrete Token Space (Yue Cao et al., ECCV 2026) :book:
- [2026/07/08] Distill Once, Adapt Life-Long: Exploring Dataset Distillation for Continual Test-Time Adaptation (Hyun-Kurl Jang & Jihun Kim & Hyeokjun Kweon et al., ECCV 2026) :octocat: :book:
- [2026/07/07] Hard Labels In! Rethinking the Role of Hard Labels in Mitigating Local Semantic Drift (Jiacheng Cui et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
- [2026/07/07] One Batch Is Enough: A Unified Dataset Condensation Framework for General Time Series Analysis (Wei Shao et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
- [2026/07/07] ProtoVAR: Efficient Dataset Distillation via Prototype-Guided Visual Autoregressive Modeling (Mingyu Wang et al., ICML 2026) :book:
- [2026/07/07] Utility Boundary of Dataset Distillation: Scaling and Configuration-Coverage Laws (Zhengquan Luo et al., ICML 2026) :book:
- [2026/07/07] Efficient Multi-modal Dataset Distillation via Analytic Parameter Matching (Deyu Bo et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
- [2026/07/07] Attention Hijacking: Backdooring Text Dataset Distillation via Semantic Anchors (Hang Ren et al., ICML 2026) :book:
- [2026/07/07] Set-Coupled Guidance: Set-Level Coordination in Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation (Ziang Gan et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
Contents
Main
Early Work
Gradient/Trajectory Matching Surrogate Objective
- Dataset Condensation with Gradient Matching (Bo Zhao et al., ICLR 2021) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Condensation with Differentiable Siamese Augmentation (Bo Zhao et al., ICML 2021) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation by Matching Training Trajectories (George Cazenavette et al., CVPR 2022) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Condensation with Contrastive Signals (Saehyung Lee et al., ICML 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Loss-Curvature Matching for Dataset Selection and Condensation (Seungjae Shin & Heesun Bae et al., AISTATS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Minimizing the Accumulated Trajectory Error to Improve Dataset Distillation (Jiawei Du & Yidi Jiang et al., CVPR 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Scaling Up Dataset Distillation to ImageNet-1K with Constant Memory (Justin Cui et al., ICML 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Sequential Subset Matching for Dataset Distillation (Jiawei Du et al., NeurIPS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Towards Lossless Dataset Distillation via Difficulty-Aligned Trajectory Matching (Ziyao Guo & Kai Wang et al., ICLR 2024) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- SelMatch: Effectively Scaling Up Dataset Distillation via Selection-Based Initialization and Partial Updates by Trajectory Matching (Yongmin Lee et al., ICML 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation by Automatic Training Trajectories (Dai Liu et al., ECCV 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Neural Spectral Decomposition for Dataset Distillation (Shaolei Yang et al., ECCV 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Prioritize Alignment in Dataset Distillation (Zekai Li & Ziyao Guo et al., 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Towards Stable and Storage-efficient Dataset Distillation: Matching Convexified Trajectory (Wenliang Zhong et al., CVPR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Emphasizing Discriminative Features for Dataset Distillation in Complex Scenarios (Kai Wang & Zekai Li et al., CVPR 2025) :octocat: :book:
Distribution/Feature Matching Surrogate Objective
- CAFE: Learning to Condense Dataset by Aligning Features (Kai Wang & Bo Zhao et al., CVPR 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Condensation with Distribution Matching (Bo Zhao et al., WACV 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Improved Distribution Matching for Dataset Condensation (Ganlong Zhao et al., CVPR 2023) :octocat: :book:
- DataDAM: Efficient Dataset Distillation with Attention Matching (Ahmad Sajedi & Samir Khaki et al., ICCV 2023) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- M3D: Dataset Condensation by Minimizing Maximum Mean Discrepancy (Hansong Zhang & Shikun Li et al., AAAI 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Exploiting Inter-sample and Inter-feature Relations in Dataset Distillation (Wenxiao Deng et al., CVPR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Condensation with Latent Quantile Matching (Wei Wei et al., CVPR 2024 Workshop) :book:
- DANCE: Dual-View Distribution Alignment for Dataset Condensation (Hansong Zhang et al., IJCAI 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Diversified Semantic Distribution Matching for Dataset Distillation (Hongcheng Li et al., MM 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation with Neural Characteristic Function: A Minmax Perspective (Shaobo Wang et al., CVPR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- OPTICAL: Leveraging Optimal Transport for Contribution Allocation in Dataset Distillation (Xiao Cui et al., CVPR 2025) :book:
- Dataset Distillation via the Wasserstein Metric (Haoyang Liu et al., ICCV 2025) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Diversity-Enhanced Distribution Alignment for Dataset Distillation (Hongcheng Li et al., ICCV 2025) :book:
- Hyperbolic Dataset Distillation (Wenyuan Li & Guang Li et al., NeurIPS 2025) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- TGDD: Trajectory Guided Dataset Distillation with Balanced Distribution (Fengli Ran et al., AAAI 2026) :octocat: :book:
- GeoDM: Geometry-aware Distribution Matching for Dataset Distillation (Xuhui Li et al., ICML 2026) :book:
Kernel-Based Distillation
Distilled Dataset Parametrization
- Dataset Condensation via Efficient Synthetic-Data Parameterization (Jang-Hyun Kim et al., ICML 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Remember the Past: Distilling Datasets into Addressable Memories for Neural Networks (Zhiwei Deng et al., NeurIPS 2022) :octocat: :book:
- On Divergence Measures for Bayesian Pseudocoresets (Balhae Kim et al., NeurIPS 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation via Factorization (Songhua Liu et al., NeurIPS 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Condensation with Latent Space Knowledge Factorization and Sharing (Hae Beom Lee & Dong Bok Lee et al., 2022) :book:
- Slimmable Dataset Condensation (Songhua Liu et al., CVPR 2023) :book:
- PRANC: Pseudo RAndom Networks for Compacting Deep Models (Parsa Nooralinejad et al., ICCV 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Few-Shot Dataset Distillation via Translative Pre-Training (Songhua Liu et al., ICCV 2023) :book:
- MGDD: A Meta Generator for Fast Dataset Distillation (Songhua Liu et al., NeurIPS 2023) :book:
- Sparse Parameterization for Epitomic Dataset Distillation (Xing Wei & Anjia Cao et al., NeurIPS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Frequency Domain-based Dataset Distillation (Donghyeok Shin & Seungjae Shin et al., NeurIPS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Leveraging Hierarchical Feature Sharing for Efficient Dataset Condensation (Haizhong Zheng et al., ECCV 2024) :book:
- FYI: Flip Your Images for Dataset Distillation (Byunggwan Son et al., ECCV 2024) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Color-Oriented Redundancy Reduction in Dataset Distillation (Bowen Yuan et al., NeurIPS 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Distilling Dataset into Neural Field (Donghyeok Shin et al., ICLR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation as Data Compression: A Rate-Utility Perspective (Youneng Bao & Yiping Liu et al., ICCV 2025) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Beyond Pixels: Efficient Dataset Distillation via Sparse Gaussian Representation (Chenyang Jiang et al., 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Post Training Quantization for Efficient Dataset Condensation (Linh-Tam Tran et al., AAAI 2026) :book:
Generative Distillation
GAN
Diffusion
- Efficient Dataset Distillation via Minimax Diffusion (Jianyang Gu et al., CVPR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- D4M: Dataset Distillation via Disentangled Diffusion Model (Duo Su & Junjie Hou et al., CVPR 2024) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Generative Dataset Distillation Based on Diffusion Model (Duo Su & Junjie Hou & Guang Li et al., ECCV 2024 Workshop) :octocat: :book:
- Influence-Guided Diffusion for Dataset Distillation (Mingyang Chen et al., ICLR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Taming Diffusion for Dataset Distillation with High Representativeness (Lin Zhao et al., ICML 2025) :octocat: :book:
- MGD3: Mode-Guided Dataset Distillation using Diffusion Models (Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago et al., ICML 2025) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Enhancing Diffusion-based Dataset Distillation via Adversary-Guided Curriculum Sampling (Lexiao Zou et al., ICME 2025) :book:
- CaO2: Rectifying Inconsistencies in Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation (Haoxuan Wang et al., ICCV 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation via Vision-Language Category Prototype (Yawen Zou & Guang Li et al., ICCV 2025) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Task-Specific Generative Dataset Distillation with Difficulty-Guided Sampling (Mingzhuo Li & Guang Li et al., ICCV 2025 Workshop) :octocat: :book:
- Unlocking Dataset Distillation with Diffusion Models (Brian B. Moser & Federico Raue et al., NeurIPS 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Optimizing Distributional Geometry Alignment with Optimal Transport for Generative Dataset Distillation (Xiao Cui et al., NeurIPS 2025) :book:
- Dataset Condensation with Color Compensation (Huyu Wu et al., TMLR 2025) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Diffusion Models as Dataset Distillation Priors (Duo Su et al., ICLR 2026) :book:
- CoDA: From Text-to-Image Diffusion Models to Training-Free Dataset Distillation (Letian Zhou et al., ICLR 2026) :octocat: :book:
- ManifoldGD: Training-Free Hierarchical Manifold Guidance for Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation (Ayush Roy et al., CVPR 2026) :octocat: :book:
- IMS3: Breaking Distributional Aggregation in Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation (Chenru Wang & Yunyi Chen et al., CVPR 2026) :book:
- EVLF: Early Vision-Language Fusion for Generative Dataset Distillation (Wenqi Cai et al., CVPR 2026) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Learnability-Guided Diffusion for Dataset Distillation (Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago et al., CVPR 2026) :globe_with_meridians: :book:
- DMGD: Train-Free Dataset Distillation with Semantic-Distribution Matching in Diffusion Models (Qichao Wang et al., CVPR 2026) :book:
- Mitigating the Distribution Shift of Diffusion-based Dataset Distillation (Yue Xu et al., CVPR 2026) :book:
- Geometry-Aware Dataset Condensation for Diffusion Model Training (Xiao Cui et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
- DIVER: Diving Deeper into Distilled Data via Expressive Semantic Recovery (Qianxin Xia et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Set-Coupled Guidance: Set-Level Coordination in Diffusion-Based Dataset Distillation (Ziang Gan et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
VAR
Flow
Better Optimization
- Accelerating Dataset Distillation via Model Augmentation (Lei Zhang & Jie Zhang et al., CVPR 2023) :octocat: :book:
- DREAM: Efficient Dataset Distillation by Representative Matching (Yanqing Liu & Jianyang Gu & Kai Wang et al., ICCV 2023) :octocat: :book:
- You Only Condense Once: Two Rules for Pruning Condensed Datasets (Yang He et al., NeurIPS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- MIM4DD: Mutual Information Maximization for Dataset Distillation (Yuzhang Shang et al., NeurIPS 2023) :book:
- Can Pre-Trained Models Assist in Dataset Distillation? (Yao Lu et al., 2023) :octocat: :book:
- DREAM+: Efficient Dataset Distillation by Bidirectional Representative Matching (Yanqing Liu & Jianyang Gu & Kai Wang et al., 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation in Latent Space (Yuxuan Duan et al., 2023) :book:
- Data Distillation Can Be Like Vodka: Distilling More Times For Better Quality (Xuxi Chen & Yu Yang et al., ICLR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Embarassingly Simple Dataset Distillation (Yunzhen Feng et al., ICLR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Multisize Dataset Condensation (Yang He et al., ICLR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Large Scale Dataset Distillation with Domain Shift (Noel Loo & Alaa Maalouf et al., ICML 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Distill Gold from Massive Ores: Bi-level Data Pruning towards Efficient Dataset Distillation (Yue Xu et al., ECCV 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Towards Model-Agnostic Dataset Condensation by Heterogeneous Models (Jun-Yeong Moon et al., ECCV 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Teddy: Efficient Large-Scale Dataset Distillation via Taylor-Approximated Matching (Ruonan Yu et al., ECCV 2024) :book:
- BACON: Bayesian Optimal Condensation Framework for Dataset Distillation (Zheng Zhou et al., 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Going Beyond Feature Similarity: Effective Dataset Distillation based on Class-aware Conditional Mutual Information (Xinhao Zhong et al., ICLR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Curriculum Coarse-to-Fine Selection for High-IPC Dataset Distillation (Yanda Chen & Gongwei Chen et al., CVPR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Not All Samples Should Be Utilized Equally: Towards Understanding and Improving Dataset Distillation (Shaobo Wang et al., CVPR 2025 Workshop) :book:
- Beyond Random: Automatic Inner-loop Optimization in Dataset Distillation (Muquan Li et al., NeurIPS 2025) :book:
- Dataset Distillation as Pushforward Optimal Quantization (Hongye Tan et al., ICLR 2026) :book:
- Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching (Haoru Tan & Wang Wang et al., CVPR 2026) :octocat: :book:
Better Understanding
- Optimizing Millions of Hyperparameters by Implicit Differentiation (Jonathan Lorraine et al., AISTATS 2020) :octocat: :book:
- On Implicit Bias in Overparameterized Bilevel Optimization (Paul Vicol et al., ICML 2022) :book:
- On the Size and Approximation Error of Distilled Sets (Alaa Maalouf & Murad Tukan et al., NeurIPS 2023) :book:
- A Theoretical Study of Dataset Distillation (Zachary Izzo et al., NeurIPS 2023 Workshop) :book:
- What is Dataset Distillation Learning? (William Yang et al., ICML 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Mitigating Bias in Dataset Distillation (Justin Cui et al., ICML 2024) :book:
- Dataset Distillation from First Principles: Integrating Core Information Extraction and Purposeful Learning (Vyacheslav Kungurtsev et al., 2024) :book:
- Flowing Datasets with Wasserstein over Wasserstein Gradient Flows (Clément Bonet & Christophe Vauthier et al., ICML 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Information-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Dataset Distillation (Linfeng Ye et al., NeurIPS 2025 Workshop) :book:
- A Discrepancy-Based Perspective on Dataset Condensation (Tong Chen et al., 2025) :book:
- Understanding Dataset Distillation via Spectral Filtering (Deyu Bo et al., ICLR 2026) :book:
- Dataset Distillation for Memorized Data: Soft Labels can Leak Held-Out Teacher Knowledge (Freya Behrens et al., ICLR 2026) :book:
- Rethinking Dataset Distillation: Hard Truths about Soft Labels (Priyam Dey & Aditya Sahdev et al., CVPR 2026) :book:
- Dataset Distillation Efficiently Encodes Low-Dimensional Representations from Gradient-Based Learning of Non-Linear Tasks (Yuri Kinoshita et al., ICML 2026) :book:
- Utility Boundary of Dataset Distillation: Scaling and Configuration-Coverage Laws (Zhengquan Luo et al., ICML 2026) :book:
- Structural Assessment for Understanding and Guiding Dataset Distillation in Discrete Token Space (Yue Cao et al., ECCV 2026) :book:
- Rethinking Dataset Distillation for Classification: Do Distilled Sets Outperform Coresets? (Trisha Mittal & Akshay Mehra et al., 2026) :book:
Label Distillation
Dataset Quantization
Decoupled Distillation
- Squeeze, Recover and Relabel: Dataset Condensation at ImageNet Scale From A New Perspective (Zeyuan Yin & Zhiqiang Shen et al., NeurIPS 2023) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation via Curriculum Data Synthesis in Large Data Era (Zeyuan Yin et al., TMLR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Generalized Large-Scale Data Condensation via Various Backbone and Statistical Matching (Shitong Shao et al., CVPR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- On the Diversity and Realism of Distilled Dataset: An Efficient Dataset Distillation Paradigm (Peng Sun et al., CVPR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Information Compensation: A Fix for Any-scale Dataset Distillation (Peng Sun et al., ICLR 2024 Workshop) :book:
- Elucidating the Design Space of Dataset Condensation (Shitong Shao et al., NeurIPS 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Diversity-Driven Synthesis: Enhancing Dataset Distillation through Directed Weight Adjustment (Jiawei Du et al., NeurIPS 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Breaking Class Barriers: Efficient Dataset Distillation via Inter-Class Feature Compensator (Xin Zhang et al., ICLR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- DELT: A Simple Diversity-driven EarlyLate Training for Dataset Distillation (Zhiqiang Shen & Ammar Sherif et al., CVPR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Enhancing Dataset Distillation via Non-Critical Region Refinement (Minh-Tuan Tran et al., CVPR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Curriculum Dataset Distillation (Zhiheng Ma & Anjia Cao et al., TIP 2025) :octocat: :book:
- FADRM: Fast and Accurate Data Residual Matching for Dataset Distillation (Jiacheng Cui & Xinyue Bi et al., NeurIPS 2025) :octocat: :book:
- FocusDD: Real-World Scene Infusion for Robust Dataset Distillation (Youbin Hu et al., 2025) :book:
- Dataset Distillation via Committee Voting (Jiacheng Cui et al., 2025) :octocat: :book:
- PRISM: Diversifying Dataset Distillation by Decoupling Architectural Priors (Brian B. Moser et al., TMLR 2026) :octocat: :book:
- DiRe: Diversity-promoting Regularization for Dataset Condensation (Saumyaranjan Mohanty et al., WACV 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Grounding and Enhancing Informativeness and Utility in Dataset Distillation (Shaobo Wang et al., ICLR 2026) :book:
- Fixed Anchors Are Not Enough: Dynamic Retrieval and Persistent Homology for Dataset Distillation (Muquan Li et al., CVPR 2026) :book:
- Balanced Dataset Distillation via Modeling Multiple Visual Pattern Distribution (Guanghui Shi et al., CVPR 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Beyond Soft Label: Dataset Distillation via Orthogonal Gradient Matching (Deyu Bo et al., CVPR 2026) :book:
- Condensing Large-Scale Datasets Directly with Minimal Information Loss (Xinyi Shang & Peng Sun & Bei Shi et al., ECCV 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Hard Labels In! Rethinking the Role of Hard Labels in Mitigating Local Semantic Drift (Jiacheng Cui et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
Multimodal Distillation
- Vision-Language Dataset Distillation (Xindi Wu et al., TMLR 2024) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
- Low-Rank Similarity Mining for Multimodal Dataset Distillation (Yue Xu et al., ICML 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Audio-Visual Dataset Distillation (Saksham Singh Kushwaha et al., TMLR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Beyond Modality Collapse: Representations Blending for Multimodal Dataset Distillation (Xin Zhang et al., NeurIPS 2025) :book:
- Efficient Multimodal Dataset Distillation via Generative Models (Zhenghao Zhao et al., NeurIPS 2025) :octocat: :book:
- CovMatch: Cross-Covariance Guided Multimodal Dataset Distillation with Trainable Text Encoder (Yongmin Lee et al., NeurIPS 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Decoupled Audio-Visual Dataset Distillation (Wenyuan Li & Guang Li et al., 2025) :book:
- ImageBindDC: Compressing Multi-modal Data with ImageBind-based Condensation (Yue Min & Shaobo Wang et al., AAAI 2026) :book:
- Multimodal Dataset Distillation Made Simple by Prototype-Guided Data Synthesis (Junhyeok Choi et al., ICLR 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Multimodal Dataset Distillation via Phased Teacher Models (Shengbin Guo & Hang Zhao et al., ICLR 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Asynchronous Matching with Dynamic Sampling for Multimodal Dataset Distillation (Ding Qi et al., ICLR 2026) :book:
- Multimodal Distribution Matching for Vision-Language Dataset Distillation (Jongoh Jeong & Hoyong Kwon & Minseok Kim et al., CVPR 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Efficient Multi-modal Dataset Distillation via Analytic Parameter Matching (Deyu Bo et al., ICML 2026) :octocat: :book:
- Rank-Aware Hyperbolic Alignment for Vision-Language Dataset Distillation (Jongoh Jeong et al., ECCV 2026) :globe_with_meridians: :octocat: :book:
Self-Supervised Distillation
Benchmark
Survey
Thesis
Workshop
Challenge
Applications
Continual Learning
Privacy
- Privacy for Free: How does Dataset Condensation Help Privacy? (Tian Dong et al., ICML 2022) :book:
- Private Set Generation with Discriminative Information (Dingfan Chen et al., NeurIPS 2022) :octocat: :book:
- No Free Lunch in "Privacy for Free: How does Dataset Condensation Help Privacy" (Nicholas Carlini et al., 2022) :book:
- Backdoor Attacks Against Dataset Distillation (Yugeng Liu et al., NDSS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Differentially Private Kernel Inducing Points (DP-KIP) for Privacy-preserving Data Distillation (Margarita Vinaroz et al., 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Understanding Reconstruction Attacks with the Neural Tangent Kernel and Dataset Distillation (Noel Loo et al., ICLR 2024) :book:
- Rethinking Backdoor Attacks on Dataset Distillation: A Kernel Method Perspective (Ming-Yu Chung et al., ICLR 2024) :book:
- Differentially Private Dataset Condensation (Zheng et al., NDSS 2024 Workshop) :book:
- Adaptive Backdoor Attacks Against Dataset Distillation for Federated Learning (Ze Chai et al., ICC 2024) :book:
- Improving Noise Efficiency in Privacy-preserving Dataset Distillation (Runkai Zheng et al., ICCV 2025) :octocat: :book:
- SNEAKDOOR: Stealthy Backdoor Attacks against Distribution Matching-based Dataset Condensation (He Yang & Dongyi Lv et al., NeurIPS 2025) :book:
- Poisoned Distillation: Injecting Backdoors into Distilled Datasets Without Raw Data Access (Ziyuan Yang et al., AAAI 2026) :book:
- DP-GENG: Differentially Private Dataset Distillation Guided by DP-Generated Data (Shuo Shi et al., AAAI 2026) :book:
- Attention Hijacking: Backdooring Text Dataset Distillation via Semantic Anchors (Hang Ren et al., ICML 2026) :book:
Medical
- Soft-Label Anonymous Gastric X-ray Image Distillation (Guang Li et al., ICIP 2020) :octocat: :book:
- Compressed Gastric Image Generation Based on Soft-Label Dataset Distillation for Medical Data Sharing (Guang Li et al., CMPB 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Dataset Distillation for Medical Dataset Sharing (Guang Li et al., AAAI 2023 Workshop) :octocat: :book:
- Communication-Efficient Federated Skin Lesion Classification with Generalizable Dataset Distillation (Yuchen Tian & Jiacheng Wang et al., MICCAI 2023 Workshop) :book:
- Importance-Aware Adaptive Dataset Distillation (Guang Li et al., NN 2024) :book:
- Image Distillation for Safe Data Sharing in Histopathology (Zhe Li et al., MICCAI 2024) :octocat: :book:
- MedSynth: Leveraging Generative Model for Healthcare Data Sharing (Renuga Kanagavelu et al., MICCAI 2024) :book:
- Progressive Trajectory Matching for Medical Dataset Distillation (Zhen Yu et al., 2024) :book:
- Dataset Distillation in Medical Imaging: A Feasibility Study (Muyang Li et al., 2024) :book:
- Dataset Distillation for Histopathology Image Classification (Cong Cong et al., 2024) :book:
- Multi-modal Vision Pre-training for Medical Image Analysis (Shaohao Rui & Lingzhi Chen et al., CVPR 2025) :octocat: :book:
- FedWSIDD: Federated Whole Slide Image Classification via Dataset Distillation (Haolong Jin et al., MICCAI 2025) :octocat: :book:
- High-Order Progressive Trajectory Matching for Medical Image Dataset Distillation (Le Dong et al., MICCAI 2025) :octocat: :book:
- Low-Level Dataset Distillation for Medical Image Enhancemen (Fengzhi Xu et al., 2025) :book:
- Towards Data Quality-Aware Dataset Distillation in Bioimaging (Bárbara Capelo et al., Bioimaging 2026) :book:
Federated Learning
- Federated Learning via Synthetic Data (Jack Goetz et al., 2020) :book:
- Distilled One-Shot Federated Learning (Yanlin Zhou et al., 2020) :book:
- DENSE: Data-Free One-Shot Federated Learning (Jie Zhang & Chen Chen et al., NeurIPS 2022) :octocat: :book:
- FedSynth: Gradient Compression via Synthetic Data in Federated Learning (Shengyuan Hu et al., 2022) :book:
- Meta Knowledge Condensation for Federated Learning (Ping Liu et al., ICLR 2023) :book:
- DYNAFED: Tackling Client Data Heterogeneity with Global Dynamics (Renjie Pi et al., CVPR 2023) :octocat: :book:
- FedDM: Iterative Distribution Matching for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning (Yuanhao Xiong & Ruochen Wang et al., CVPR 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Federated Learning via Decentralized Dataset Distillation in Resource-Constrained Edge Environments (Rui Song et al., IJCNN 2023) :octocat: :book:
- FedLAP-DP: Federated Learning by Sharing Differentially Private Loss Approximations (Hui-Po Wang et al., 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Federated Learning on Virtual Heterogeneous Data with Local-global Distillation (Chun-Yin Huang et al., TMLR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- An Aggregation-Free Federated Learning for Tackling Data Heterogeneity (Yuan Wang et al., CVPR 2024) :book:
- Overcoming Data and Model Heterogeneities in Decentralized Federated Learning via Synthetic Anchors (Chun-Yin Huang et al., ICML 2024) :octocat: :book:
- DCFL: Non-IID Awareness Dataset Condensation Aided Federated Learning (Xingwang Wang et al., IJCNN 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Unlocking the Potential of Federated Learning: The Symphony of Dataset Distillation via Deep Generative Latents (Yuqi Jia & Saeed Vahidian et al., ECCV 2024) :octocat: :book:
- One-Shot Collaborative Data Distillation (William Holland et al., ECAI 2024) :octocat: :book:
- FedVCK: Non-IID Robust and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning via Valuable Condensed Knowledge for Medical Image Analysis (Guochen Yan et al., AAAI 2025) :octocat: :book:
Graph Neural Network
- Graph Condensation for Graph Neural Networks (Wei Jin et al., ICLR 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Condensing Graphs via One-Step Gradient Matching (Wei Jin et al., KDD 2022) :octocat: :book:
- Graph Condensation via Receptive Field Distribution Matching (Mengyang Liu et al., 2022) :book:
- Kernel Ridge Regression-Based Graph Dataset Distillation (Zhe Xu et al., KDD 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Structure-free Graph Condensation: From Large-scale Graphs to Condensed Graph-free Data (Xin Zheng et al., NeurIPS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Does Graph Distillation See Like Vision Dataset Counterpart? (Beining Yang & Kai Wang et al., NeurIPS 2023) :octocat: :book:
- CaT: Balanced Continual Graph Learning with Graph Condensation (Yilun Liu et al., ICDM 2023) :octocat: :book:
- Mirage: Model-Agnostic Graph Distillation for Graph Classification (Mridul Gupta & Sahil Manchanda et al., ICLR 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Graph Distillation with Eigenbasis Matching (Yang Liu & Deyu Bo et al., ICML 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Navigating Complexity: Toward Lossless Graph Condensation via Expanding Window Matching (Yuchen Zhang & Tianle Zhang & Kai Wang et al., ICML 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Graph Data Condensation via Self-expressive Graph Structure Reconstruction (Zhanyu Liu & Chaolv Zeng et al., KDD 2024) :octocat: :book:
- Two Trades is not Baffled: Condensing Graph via Crafting Rational Gradient Matching (Tianle Zhang & Yuchen Zhang & Kai Wang et al., 2024) :octocat: :book:
Survey
Benchmark
No further updates will be made regarding graph distillation topics as sufficient papers and summary projects are already available on the subject
Neural Architecture Search
Fashion, Art, and Design
Recommender Systems
Blackbox Optimization
Robustness
Fairness
Text
Video
Tabular
Retrieval
Domain Adaptation
Super Resolution
Time Series
Speech
Machine Unlearning
Reinforcement Learning
Long-Tail
Learning with Noisy Labels
Object Detection
Point Cloud
Universal Distillation
Spiking Neural Network
EEG
Finance
Music
Remote Sensing
Deraining
Fine-grained
Test-Time Adaptation
Semantic Segmentation
Citing Awesome Dataset Distillation
If you find this project useful for your research, please use the following BibTeX entry.
@misc{li2022awesome,
author={Li, Guang and Zhao, Bo and Wang, Tongzhou},
title={Awesome Dataset Distillation},
howpublished={\url{https://github.com/Guang000/Awesome-Dataset-Distillation}},
year={2022}
}
Acknowledgments
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Nikolaos Tsilivis, Wei Jin, Yongchao Zhou, Noveen Sachdeva, Can Chen, Guangxiang Zhao, Shiye Lei, Xinchao Wang, Dmitry Medvedev, Seungjae Shin, Jiawei Du, Yidi Jiang, Xindi Wu, Guangyi Liu, Yilun Liu, Kai Wang, Yue Xu, Anjia Cao, Jianyang Gu, Yuanzhen Feng, Peng Sun, Ahmad Sajedi, Zhihao Sui, Ziyu Wang, Haoyang Liu, Eduardo Montesuma, Shengbo Gong, Zheng Zhou, Zhenghao Zhao, Duo Su, Tianhang Zheng, Shijie Ma, Wei Wei, Yantai Yang, Shaobo Wang, Xinhao Zhong, Zhiqiang Shen, Cong Cong, Chun-Yin Huang, Dai Liu, Ruonan Yu, William Holland, Saksham Singh Kushwaha, Ping Liu, Wenliang Zhong, Ning Li, Guochen Yan, Saumyaranjan Mohanty, Taehyung Kwon, Dongwook Kim, Bárbara Capelo, Guanghui Shi, Jongoh Jeong, Akshay Mehra, Hyun-Kurl Jang, and Jiacheng Cui for their valuable suggestions and contributions.
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