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Large Transformer-based models were shown to be reducible to a smaller number of self-attention heads and layers. We consider this phenomenon from the perspective of the lottery ticket hypothesis, using both structured and magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sai Prasanna , Anna Rogers , Anna Rumshisky

In natural language processing (NLP), enormous pre-trained models like BERT have become the standard starting point for training on a range of downstream tasks, and similar trends are emerging in other areas of deep learning. In parallel,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tianlong Chen , Jonathan Frankle , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Yang Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Michael Carbin

The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that dense networks contain sparse subnetworks that can be trained in isolation to match full-model performance. Existing approaches-iterative pruning, dynamic sparse training, and pruning at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Qihang Yao , Constantine Dovrolis

Network pruning is an effective approach to reduce network complexity with acceptable performance compromise. Existing studies achieve the sparsity of neural networks via time-consuming weight training or complex searching on networks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuxin Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Yunshan Zhong , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

The proposition of lottery ticket hypothesis revealed the relationship between network structure and initialization parameters and the learning potential of neural networks. The original lottery ticket hypothesis performs pruning and weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Di Zhang

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) raises keen attention to identifying sparse trainable subnetworks, or winning tickets, which can be trained in isolation to achieve similar or even better performance compared to the full models. Despite many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Xiaohan Chen , Yu Cheng , Shuohang Wang , Zhe Gan , Jingjing Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Despite the success of diffusion models, the training and inference of diffusion models are notoriously expensive due to the long chain of the reverse process. In parallel, the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) claims that there exists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chao Jiang , Bo Hui , Bohan Liu , Da Yan

The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that sparse, sub-networks of a given neural network, if initialized properly, can be trained to reach comparable or even better performance to that of the original network. Prior works in lottery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Neha Mukund Kalibhat , Yogesh Balaji , Soheil Feizi

Recent work on deep neural network pruning has shown there exist sparse subnetworks that achieve equal or improved accuracy, training time, and loss using fewer network parameters when compared to their dense counterparts. Orthogonal to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Justin Cosentino , Federico Zaiter , Dan Pei , Jun Zhu

In pruning, the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis posits that large networks contain sparse subnetworks, or winning tickets, that can be trained in isolation to match the performance of their dense counterparts. However, most existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Grzegorz Stefanski , Alberto Presta , Michal Byra

The computer vision world has been re-gaining enthusiasm in various pre-trained models, including both classical ImageNet supervised pre-training and recently emerged self-supervised pre-training such as simCLR and MoCo. Pre-trained weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Tianlong Chen , Jonathan Frankle , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Yang Zhang , Michael Carbin , Zhangyang Wang

Recent work on the lottery ticket hypothesis has produced highly sparse Transformers for NMT while maintaining BLEU. However, it is unclear how such pruning techniques affect a model's learned representations. By probing Transformers with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Rajiv Movva , Jason Y. Zhao

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has shown that dense models contain highly sparse subnetworks (i.e., winning tickets) that can be trained in isolation to match full accuracy. Despite many exciting efforts being made, there is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianlong Chen , Xuxi Chen , Xiaolong Ma , Yanzhi Wang , Zhangyang Wang

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) claims the existence of a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization) that can achieve competitive performance to the original dense network. A recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Bo Hui , Da Yan , Xiaolong Ma , Wei-Shinn Ku

The existence of "lottery tickets" arXiv:1803.03635 at or near initialization raises the tantalizing question of whether large models are necessary in deep learning, or whether sparse networks can be quickly identified and trained without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-26 Tanishq Kumar , Kevin Luo , Mark Sellke

Fully exploiting the learning capacity of neural networks requires overparameterized dense networks. On the other side, directly training sparse neural networks typically results in unsatisfactory performance. Lottery Ticket Hypothesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Yue Bai , Huan Wang , Zhiqiang Tao , Kunpeng Li , Yun Fu

The lottery ticket hypothesis proposes that over-parameterization of deep neural networks (DNNs) aids training by increasing the probability of a "lucky" sub-network initialization being present rather than by helping the optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Haonan Yu , Sergey Edunov , Yuandong Tian , Ari S. Morcos

Random masks define surprisingly effective sparse neural network models, as has been shown empirically. The resulting sparse networks can often compete with dense architectures and state-of-the-art lottery ticket pruning algorithms, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Advait Gadhikar , Sohom Mukherjee , Rebekka Burkholz

The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) states that randomly-initialised neural networks likely contain subnetworks that perform well without any training. Although unstructured pruning has been extensively studied in this context, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Arthur da Cunha , Francesco d'Amore , Emanuele Natale

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) posits that within overparametrized neural networks, there exist sparse subnetworks that are capable of matching the performance of the original model when trained in isolation from the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Brandon Barton , Juan Carrasquilla , Christopher Roth , Agnes Valenti