Geometric Median (GM) Matching for Robust Data Pruning

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Main Authors: Acharya, Anish, Dhillon, Inderjit S, Sanghavi, Sujay
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author Acharya, Anish
Dhillon, Inderjit S
Sanghavi, Sujay
author_facet Acharya, Anish
Dhillon, Inderjit S
Sanghavi, Sujay
contents Large-scale data collections in the wild, are invariably noisy. Thus developing data pruning strategies that remain robust even in the presence of corruption is critical in practice. In this work, we propose Geometric Median ($\gm$) Matching -- a herding style greedy algorithm that yields a $k$-subset such that the mean of the subset approximates the geometric median of the (potentially) noisy dataset. Theoretically, we show that $\gm$ Matching enjoys an improved $\gO(1/k)$ scaling over $\gO(1/\sqrt{k})$ scaling of uniform sampling; while achieving {\bf optimal breakdown point} of {\bf 1/2} even under {\bf arbitrary} corruption. Extensive experiments across several popular deep learning benchmarks indicate that $\gm$ Matching consistently improves over prior state-of-the-art; the gains become more profound at high rates of corruption and aggressive pruning rates; making $\gm$ Matching a strong baseline for future research in robust data pruning.
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spellingShingle Geometric Median (GM) Matching for Robust Data Pruning
Acharya, Anish
Dhillon, Inderjit S
Sanghavi, Sujay
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Large-scale data collections in the wild, are invariably noisy. Thus developing data pruning strategies that remain robust even in the presence of corruption is critical in practice. In this work, we propose Geometric Median ($\gm$) Matching -- a herding style greedy algorithm that yields a $k$-subset such that the mean of the subset approximates the geometric median of the (potentially) noisy dataset. Theoretically, we show that $\gm$ Matching enjoys an improved $\gO(1/k)$ scaling over $\gO(1/\sqrt{k})$ scaling of uniform sampling; while achieving {\bf optimal breakdown point} of {\bf 1/2} even under {\bf arbitrary} corruption. Extensive experiments across several popular deep learning benchmarks indicate that $\gm$ Matching consistently improves over prior state-of-the-art; the gains become more profound at high rates of corruption and aggressive pruning rates; making $\gm$ Matching a strong baseline for future research in robust data pruning.
title Geometric Median (GM) Matching for Robust Data Pruning
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17188