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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

The conventional lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) claims that there exists a sparse subnetwork within a dense neural network and a proper random initialization method called the winning ticket, such that it can be trained from scratch to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Xuan Shen , Zhenglun Kong , Minghai Qin , Peiyan Dong , Geng Yuan , Xin Meng , Hao Tang , Xiaolong Ma , Yanzhi Wang

Large-scale pre-training has recently revolutionized vision-and-language (VL) research. Models such as LXMERT and UNITER have significantly lifted the state of the art over a wide range of VL tasks. However, the large number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Zhe Gan , Yen-Chun Chen , Linjie Li , Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Shuohang Wang , Jingjing Liu , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

The lottery ticket hypothesis posits that dense networks contain sparse subnetworks, ``winning tickets,'' that, when rewound to their initial weights and retrained in isolation, match the performance of the full model. We ask a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alon Bebchuk , Nir Shavit

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

Lottery tickets (LTs) is able to discover accurate and sparse subnetworks that could be trained in isolation to match the performance of dense networks. Ensemble, in parallel, is one of the oldest time-proven tricks in machine learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Lu Yin , Shiwei Liu , Meng Fang , Tianjin Huang , Vlado Menkovski , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Efforts to improve the learning abilities of neural networks have focused mostly on the role of optimization methods rather than on weight initializations. Recent findings, however, suggest that neural networks rely on lucky random initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Jacob M. Springer , Garrett T. Kenyon

The Lottery Ticket hypothesis proposes that ideal, sparse subnetworks, called lottery tickets, exist in untrained dense neural networks. The Early Bird hypothesis proposes an efficient algorithm to find these winning lottery tickets in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Adithya Vasudev

Artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when they are sequentially trained on multiple tasks. Many continual learning (CL) strategies are trying to overcome this problem. One of the most effective is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Kamil Książek , Przemysław Spurek

Recent work on the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) shows that there exist ``\textit{winning tickets}'' in large neural networks. These tickets represent ``sparse'' versions of the full model that can be trained independently to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Qihan Wang , Chen Dun , Fangshuo Liao , Chris Jermaine , Anastasios Kyrillidis

The hypothesis that sub-network initializations (lottery) exist within the initializations of over-parameterized networks, which when trained in isolation produce highly generalizable models, has led to crucial insights into network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-01 Bindya Venkatesh , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Kowshik Thopalli , Prasanna Sattigeri

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) has attracted attention because it can explain why over-parameterized models often show high generalization ability. It is known that when we use iterative magnitude pruning (IMP), which is an algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Keitaro Sakamoto , Issei Sato

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

In contrast to traditional weight optimization in a continuous space, we demonstrate the existence of effective random networks whose weights are never updated. By selecting a weight among a fixed set of random values for each individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Maxwell Mbabilla Aladago , Lorenzo Torresani

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

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

Our theoretical understanding of neural networks is lagging behind their empirical success. One of the important unexplained phenomena is why and how, during the process of training with gradient descent, the theoretical capacity of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hannah Pinson

Deep generative adversarial networks (GANs) have gained growing popularity in numerous scenarios, while usually suffer from high parameter complexities for resource-constrained real-world applications. However, the compression of GANs has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Xuxi Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Yongduo Sui , Tianlong Chen

Yes. In this paper, we investigate strong lottery tickets in generative models, the subnetworks that achieve good generative performance without any weight update. Neural network pruning is considered the main cornerstone of model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sangyeop Yeo , Yoojin Jang , Jy-yong Sohn , Dongyoon Han , Jaejun Yoo