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Sparse neural networks are effective approaches to reduce the resource requirements for the deployment of deep neural networks. Recently, the concept of adaptive sparse connectivity, has emerged to allow training sparse neural networks from…

In modern deep learning, algorithmic choices (such as width, depth, and learning rate) are known to modulate nuanced resource tradeoffs. This work investigates how these complexities necessarily arise for feature learning in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Benjamin L. Edelman , Surbhi Goel , Sham Kakade , Eran Malach , Cyril Zhang

Deep learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This perception led to analyzing deep learning models not only from the perspective of their performance measures but also their robustness to certain types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 M. Ben Amor , J. Stier , M. Granitzer

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), a novel brain-inspired algorithm, are garnering increased attention for their superior computation and energy efficiency over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). To facilitate deployment on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Hao Cheng , Jiahang Cao , Erjia Xiao , Mengshu Sun , Le Yang , Jize Zhang , Xue Lin , Bhavya Kailkhura , Kaidi Xu , Renjing Xu

Deep neural networks are effective feature extractors but they are prohibitively large for deployment scenarios. Due to the huge number of parameters, interpretability of parameters in different layers is not straight-forward. This is why…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Saeed Damadi

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

Obtaining versions of deep neural networks that are both highly-accurate and highly-sparse is one of the main challenges in the area of model compression, and several high-performance pruning techniques have been investigated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Denis Kuznedelev , Eldar Kurtic , Eugenia Iofinova , Elias Frantar , Alexandra Peste , Dan Alistarh

Despite the great success of deep learning, recent works show that large deep neural networks are often highly redundant and can be significantly reduced in size. However, the theoretical question of how much we can prune a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Mao Ye , Lemeng Wu , Qiang Liu

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) suggests that a dense neural network contains a sparse sub-network that can match the performance of the original dense network when trained in isolation from scratch. Most works retrain the sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ajay Kumar Jaiswal , Haoyu Ma , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

In deep model compression, the recent finding "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" (LTH) (Frankle & Carbin, 2018) pointed out that there could exist a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Ning Liu , Geng Yuan , Zhengping Che , Xuan Shen , Xiaolong Ma , Qing Jin , Jian Ren , Jian Tang , Sijia Liu , Yanzhi Wang

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) are a useful tool for uncertainty quantification, but require substantially more computational resources than conventional neural networks. For non-Bayesian networks, the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nicholas Kuhn , Arvid Weyrauch , Lars Heyen , Achim Streit , Markus Götz , Charlotte Debus

We investigate the difficulties of training sparse neural networks and make new observations about optimization dynamics and the energy landscape within the sparse regime. Recent work of \citep{Gale2019, Liu2018} has shown that sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Utku Evci , Fabian Pedregosa , Aidan Gomez , Erich Elsen

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

The growing energy and performance costs of deep learning have driven the community to reduce the size of neural networks by selectively pruning components. Similarly to their biological counterparts, sparse networks generalize just as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Torsten Hoefler , Dan Alistarh , Tal Ben-Nun , Nikoli Dryden , Alexandra Peste

The vulnerability of deep neural networks against adversarial examples - inputs with small imperceptible perturbations - has gained a lot of attention in the research community recently. Simultaneously, the number of parameters of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Florian Merkle , Maximilian Samsinger , Pascal Schöttle

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have relied heavily on increasingly large neural networks, raising concerns about their computational and environmental costs. This paper investigates whether simpler, sparser networks can maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 C. Díaz-Faloh , R. Mulet

Deploying energy-efficient deep learning algorithms on computational-limited devices, such as robots, is still a pressing issue for real-world applications. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), a novel brain-inspired algorithm, offer a promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Hao Cheng , Jiahang Cao , Erjia Xiao , Mengshu Sun , Renjing Xu

The sizes of deep neural networks (DNNs) are rapidly outgrowing the capacity of hardware to store and train them. Research over the past few decades has explored the prospect of sparsifying DNNs before, during, and after training by pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ryan A. Robinett , Jeremy Kepner

Sparse models require less memory for storage and enable a faster inference by reducing the necessary number of FLOPs. This is relevant both for time-critical and on-device computations using neural networks. The stabilized lottery ticket…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Christopher Brix , Parnia Bahar , Hermann Ney

Pruning is a well-established technique for removing unnecessary structure from neural networks after training to improve the performance of inference. Several recent results have explored the possibility of pruning at initialization time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Daniel M. Roy , Michael Carbin