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Neuromorphic hardware tends to pose limits on the connectivity of deep networks that one can run on them. But also generic hardware and software implementations of deep learning run more efficiently for sparse networks. Several methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Guillaume Bellec , David Kappel , Wolfgang Maass , Robert Legenstein

Convolutional and Recurrent, deep neural networks have been successful in machine learning systems for computer vision, reinforcement learning, and other allied fields. However, the robustness of such neural networks is seldom apprised,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Biswa Sengupta , Karl J. Friston

The limited and dynamically varied resources on edge devices motivate us to deploy an optimized deep neural network that can adapt its sub-networks to fit in different resource constraints. However, existing works often build sub-networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhongnan Qu , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Xin Dong , Yuecheng Li , Ekin Sumbul , Barbara De Salvo

Pruning of deep neural networks has been an effective technique for reducing model size while preserving most of the performance of dense networks, crucial for deploying models on memory and power-constrained devices. While recent sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Andy Li , Aiden Durrant , Milan Markovic , Tianjin Huang , Souvik Kundu , Tianlong Chen , Lu Yin , Georgios Leontidis

The observation of sparse trainable sub-networks within over-parametrized networks - also known as Lottery Tickets (LTs) - has prompted inquiries around their trainability, scaling, uniqueness, and generalization properties. Across 28…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Michela Paganini , Jessica Zosa Forde

Recent work has proposed neural network pruning techniques to reduce the size of a network while preserving robustness against adversarial examples, i.e., well-crafted inputs inducing a misclassification. These methods, which we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Giorgio Piras , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Giacinto , Fabio Roli

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) states that for a reasonably sized neural network, a sub-network within the same network yields no less performance than the dense counterpart when trained from the same initialization. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Surya Kant Sahu , Sai Mitheran , Somya Suhans Mahapatra

Sparse Neural Networks (SNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for efficient feature selection. Leveraging the dynamic sparse training (DST) algorithms within SNNs has demonstrated promising feature selection capabilities while drastically…

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

Modern Machine learning techniques take advantage of the exponentially rising calculation power in new generation processor units. Thus, the number of parameters which are trained to resolve complex tasks was highly increased over the last…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Richard C. Gerum , André Erpenbeck , Patrick Krauss , Achim Schilling

The learning capability of a neural network improves with increasing depth at higher computational costs. Wider layers with dense kernel connectivity patterns furhter increase this cost and may hinder real-time inference. We propose feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Sajid Anwar , Wonyong Sung

Sparse regression on a library of candidate features has developed as the prime method to discover the partial differential equation underlying a spatio-temporal data-set. These features consist of higher order derivatives, limiting model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Gert-Jan Both , Gijs Vermarien , Remy Kusters

Sparse Neural Networks (NNs) can match the generalization of dense NNs using a fraction of the compute/storage for inference, and also have the potential to enable efficient training. However, naively training unstructured sparse NNs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Utku Evci , Yani A. Ioannou , Cem Keskin , Yann Dauphin

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis asserts the existence of highly sparse, trainable subnetworks ('winning tickets') within dense, randomly initialized neural networks. However, state-of-the-art methods of drawing these tickets, like Lottery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tanay Arora , Christof Teuscher

Sparse connectivity is a hallmark of the brain and a desired property of artificial neural networks. It promotes energy efficiency, simplifies training, and enhances the robustness of network function. Thus, a detailed understanding of how…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-09-10 Mirza M. Junaid Baig , Armen Stepanyants

Thanks to their extensive capacity, over-parameterized neural networks exhibit superior predictive capabilities and generalization. However, having a large parameter space is considered one of the main suspects of the neural networks'…

Deep neural networks have dramatically transformed machine learning, but their memory and energy demands are substantial. The requirements of real biological neural networks are rather modest in comparison, and one feature that might…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tianlin Liu , Friedemann Zenke

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) suggests that over-parameterized neural networks contain sparse subnetworks ("winning tickets") capable of matching full model performance when trained from scratch. With the growing reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hamed Damirchi , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Zhen Zhang , Javen Shi

Deep neural networks are vulnerable against adversarial examples. In this paper, we propose to train and test the networks with randomly subsampled images with high drop rates. We show that this approach significantly improves robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Hossein Hosseini , Sreeram Kannan , Radha Poovendran

Even though probabilistic treatments of neural networks have a long history, they have not found widespread use in practice. Sampling approaches are often too slow already for simple networks. The size of the inputs and the depth of typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Jochen Gast , Stefan Roth