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The lottery ticket hypothesis questions the role of overparameterization in supervised deep learning. But how is the performance of winning lottery tickets affected by the distributional shift inherent to reinforcement learning problems? In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Marc Aurel Vischer , Robert Tjarko Lange , Henning Sprekeler

We study whether a neural network optimizes to the same, linearly connected minimum under different samples of SGD noise (e.g., random data order and augmentation). We find that standard vision models become stable to SGD noise in this way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite , Daniel M. Roy , Michael Carbin

The strong lottery ticket hypothesis (SLTH) conjectures that high-performing subnetworks, called strong lottery tickets (SLTs), are hidden in randomly initialized neural networks. Although recent theoretical studies have established the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Hikari Otsuka , Daiki Chijiwa , Yasuyuki Okoshi , Daichi Fujiki , Susumu Takeuchi , Masato Motomura

In this paper, we explore the performance of different pruning methods in the context of the lottery ticket hypothesis. We compare the performance of L1 unstructured pruning, Fisher pruning, and random pruning on different network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Eirik Fladmark , Muhammad Hamza Sajjad , Laura Brinkholm Justesen

The design of sparse neural networks, i.e., of networks with a reduced number of parameters, has been attracting increasing research attention in the last few years. The use of sparse models may significantly reduce the computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Giulia Fracastoro , Sophie M. Fosson , Andrea Migliorati , Giuseppe C. Calafiore

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) posits the existence of a sparse subnetwork (a.k.a. winning ticket) that can generalize comparably to its over-parameterized counterpart when trained from scratch. The common approach to finding a winning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Junghun Oh , Sungyong Baik , Kyoung Mu Lee

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis suggests large, over-parameterized neural networks consist of small, sparse subnetworks that can be trained in isolation to reach a similar (or better) test accuracy. However, the initialization and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Shrey Desai , Hongyuan Zhan , Ahmed Aly

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

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

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

Large neural networks can be pruned to a small fraction of their original size, with little loss in accuracy, by following a time-consuming "train, prune, re-train" approach. Frankle & Carbin conjecture that we can avoid this by training…

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

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 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

The lottery ticket hypothesis has sparked the rapid development of pruning algorithms that aim to reduce the computational costs associated with deep learning during training and model deployment. Currently, such algorithms are primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jonas Fischer , Rebekka Burkholz

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis postulates that a freshly initialized neural network contains a small subnetwork that can be trained in isolation to achieve similar performance as the full network. Our paper examines several alternatives to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Dániel Lévai , Zsolt Zombori

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has increased attention to pruning neural networks at initialization. We study this problem in the linear setting. We show that finding a sparse mask at initialization is equivalent to the sketching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

Recent studies on the lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) show that pre-trained language models (PLMs) like BERT contain matching subnetworks that have similar transfer learning performance as the original PLM. These subnetworks are found using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Yuanxin Liu , Fandong Meng , Zheng Lin , Peng Fu , Yanan Cao , Weiping Wang , Jie Zhou

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

Despite tremendous success in many application scenarios, the training and inference costs of using deep learning are also rapidly increasing over time. The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) emerges as a promising framework to leverage a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xuxi Chen , Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Zhangyang Wang