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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

Recent works have shown that Dataset Distillation, the process for summarizing the training data, can be leveraged to accelerate the training of deep learning models. However, its impact on training dynamics, particularly in neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Luke McDermott , Rahul Parhi

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

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis continues to have a profound practical impact on the quest for small scale deep neural networks that solve modern deep learning tasks at competitive performance. These lottery tickets are identified by pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Rebekka Burkholz

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

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

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

Modern deep learning involves training costly, highly overparameterized networks, thus motivating the search for sparser networks that can still be trained to the same accuracy as the full network (i.e. matching). Iterative magnitude…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Mansheej Paul , Feng Chen , Brett W. Larsen , Jonathan Frankle , Surya Ganguli , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

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 Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) posits that large, randomly initialized neural networks contain sparse subnetworks capable of approximating a target function at initialization without training, suggesting that pruning alone is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Davide Ferre' , Frédéric Giroire , Frederik Mallmann-Trenn , Emanuele Natale

We analyse the pruning procedure behind the lottery ticket hypothesis arXiv:1803.03635v5, iterative magnitude pruning (IMP), when applied to linear models trained by gradient flow. We begin by presenting sufficient conditions on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Bryn Elesedy , Varun Kanade , Yee Whye Teh

The recent lottery ticket hypothesis proposes that there is one sub-network that matches the accuracy of the original network when trained in isolation. We show that instead each network contains several winning tickets, even if the initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Kathrin Grosse , Michael Backes

Modern deep neural networks require a significant amount of computing time and power to train and deploy, which limits their usage on edge devices. Inspired by the iterative weight pruning in the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-15 John Tan Chong Min , Mehul Motani

Sparse shrunk additive models and sparse random feature models have been developed separately as methods to learn low-order functions, where there are few interactions between variables, but neither offers computational efficiency. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Yuege Xie , Bobby Shi , Hayden Schaeffer , Rachel Ward

Network pruning is an effective approach to reduce network complexity with acceptable performance compromise. Existing studies achieve the sparsity of neural networks via time-consuming weight training or complex searching on networks with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yuxin Zhang , Mingbao Lin , Yunshan Zhong , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Fully exploiting the learning capacity of neural networks requires overparameterized dense networks. On the other side, directly training sparse neural networks typically results in unsatisfactory performance. Lottery Ticket Hypothesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Yue Bai , Huan Wang , Zhiqiang Tao , Kunpeng Li , Yun Fu

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

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) posits that within overparametrized neural networks, there exist sparse subnetworks that are capable of matching the performance of the original model when trained in isolation from the original…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Brandon Barton , Juan Carrasquilla , Christopher Roth , Agnes Valenti

A striking observation about iterative magnitude pruning (IMP; Frankle et al. 2020) is that $\unicode{x2014}$ after just a few hundred steps of dense training $\unicode{x2014}$ the method can find a sparse sub-network that can be trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Mansheej Paul , Brett W. Larsen , Surya Ganguli , Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Pruning the weights of randomly initialized neural networks plays an important role in the context of lottery ticket hypothesis. Ramanujan et al. (2020) empirically showed that only pruning the weights can achieve remarkable performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Daiki Chijiwa , Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Yasutoshi Ida , Kenji Umakoshi , Tomohiro Inoue