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The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) states that a randomly-initialized large neural network contains a small sub-network (i.e., winning tickets) which, when trained in isolation, can achieve comparable performance to the large network. LTH…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Man Yao , Yuhong Chou , Guangshe Zhao , Xiawu Zheng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

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

Considerable research efforts have recently been made to show that a random neural network $N$ contains subnetworks capable of accurately approximating any given neural network that is sufficiently smaller than $N$, without any training.…

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

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

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

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

The strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) claims the existence of a subnetwork in a sufficiently large, randomly initialized neural network that approximates some target neural network without the need of training. We extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zheyang Xiong , Fangshuo Liao , Anastasios Kyrillidis

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) showed that by iteratively training a model, removing connections with the lowest global weight magnitude and rewinding the remaining connections, sparse networks can be extracted. This global comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Benjamin Vandersmissen , Jose Oramas

Discovering a high-performing sparse network within a massive neural network is advantageous for deploying them on devices with limited storage, such as mobile phones. Additionally, model explainability is essential to fostering trust in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Shantanu Ghosh , Kayhan Batmanghelich

The strong {\it lottery ticket hypothesis} (LTH) postulates that one can approximate any target neural network by only pruning the weights of a sufficiently over-parameterized random network. A recent work by Malach et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ankit Pensia , Shashank Rajput , Alliot Nagle , Harit Vishwakarma , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

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

The Multi-Prize Lottery Ticket Hypothesis posits that randomly initialized neural networks contain several subnetworks that achieve comparable accuracy to fully trained models of the same architecture. However, current methods require that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Matt Gorbett , Darrell Whitley

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

Recognition tasks, such as object recognition and keypoint estimation, have seen widespread adoption in recent years. Most state-of-the-art methods for these tasks use deep networks that are computationally expensive and have huge memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Sharath Girish , Shishira R. Maiya , Kamal Gupta , Hao Chen , Larry Davis , Abhinav Shrivastava

Lottery ticket hypothesis for deep neural networks emphasizes the importance of initialization used to re-train the sparser networks obtained using the iterative magnitude pruning process. An explanation for why the specific initialization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tausifa Jan Saleem , Ramanjit Ahuja , Surendra Prasad , Brejesh Lall

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis demonstrated that sparse subnetworks can match full-model performance, suggesting parameter redundancy. Meanwhile, in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), recent work has shown that updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Israel Adewuyi , Solomon Okibe , Vladmir Ivanov

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

The recent "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" paper by Frankle & Carbin showed that a simple approach to creating sparse networks (keeping the large weights) results in models that are trainable from scratch, but only when starting from the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Hattie Zhou , Janice Lan , Rosanne Liu , Jason Yosinski

The search for efficient, sparse deep neural network models is most prominently performed by pruning: training a dense, overparameterized network and removing parameters, usually via following a manually-crafted heuristic. Additionally, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Pedro Savarese , Hugo Silva , Michael Maire