arxivcs.CV2026-07-18
Dataset Distillation by Influence Matching
Haoru Tan, Wang Wang, Sitong Wu, Xiuzhe Wu, Yangtian Sun, Chirui Chang, et al.
We revisit dataset distillation from an outcome-centric perspective. Rather than aligning process surrogates (per-step gradients or training trajectories), Influence Matching (Inf-Match) aligns the final outcome of training: it learns a compact synthetic set whose effect on the c…