arXiv:2512.15647cs.CV2025-12

用硬标签纠正软标签偏差,提升小样本数据蒸馏精度

Hard Labels In! Rethinking the Role of Hard Labels in Mitigating Local Semantic Drift

  • 引入硬标签作为语义锚点,缓解局部语义漂移
  • 仅用285M存储量实现ImageNet-1K上42.7%准确率
  • 适合大规模数据蒸馏与低存储场景应用

教师模型生成的软标签是知识迁移和大规模数据蒸馏(如SRe2L、LPLD)的标准做法。然而,当受限于每张图像仅保留少量裁剪图以降低预计算软标签的存储成本时,这些方法会严重遭遇局部语义漂移:视觉模糊的裁剪区域导致软监督偏离图像级真实语义,引发持续错误并造成训练-测试分布不匹配。本文重新审视被忽视的硬标签作用,证明其在合理整合下可作为内容无关的语义锚点,校准此类漂移。我们从理论上分析了稀疏软标签监督下漂移的产生机制,并证明混合使用硬标签与软标签能恢复视觉内容与语义监督的一致性。基于此,提出新训练范式HALD,利用硬标签作为中间修正信号,同时保留软标签的细粒度优势。在数据蒸馏与大规模分类基准上的大量实验表明,该方法具有一致的泛化提升。在ImageNet-1K上,仅需285M软标签存储(减少100倍),即达42.7%准确率,优于先前最优的LPLD方法9.0%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Soft labels from teacher models are a de facto practice for knowledge transfer and large-scale dataset distillation (e.g., SRe2L, LPLD). However, when we limit the number of crops per image to reduce the substantial cost of storing precomputed soft labels, these methods suffer severely from local semantic drift: visually ambiguous crops can cause soft supervision to deviate from the image-level ground-truth semantics, leading to persistent errors and a train-test distribution mismatch. We revisit the overlooked role of hard labels and show that, when properly integrated, they can act as a content-invariant semantic anchor that calibrates such drift. We theoretically analyze the emergence of drift under sparse soft-label supervision and demonstrate that hybridizing hard and soft labels restores alignment between visual content and semantic supervision. Building on this insight, we propose a new training paradigm, Hard Label for Alleviating Local Semantic Drift (HALD), which uses hard labels as intermediate corrective signals while preserving the fine-grained benefits of soft labels. Extensive experiments on dataset distillation and large-scale classification benchmarks show consistent generalization improvements. On ImageNet-1K, our method achieves 42.7% accuracy with only 285M soft-label storage (reduces by 100X), outperforming prior state-of-the-art LPLD 9.0%.

知识蒸馏语义漂移数据压缩图像分类

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