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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

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 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

Neural architecture search (NAS) has demonstrated amazing success in searching for efficient deep neural networks (DNNs) from a given supernet. In parallel, the lottery ticket hypothesis has shown that DNNs contain small subnetworks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoran You , Baopu Li , Zhanyi Sun , Xu Ouyang , Yingyan Celine Lin

The lottery ticket hypothesis conjectures the existence of sparse subnetworks of large randomly initialized deep neural networks that can be successfully trained in isolation. Recent work has experimentally observed that some of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Rebekka Burkholz , Nilanjana Laha , Rajarshi Mukherjee , Alkis Gotovos

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis suggests that an over-parametrized network consists of ``lottery tickets'', and training a certain collection of them (i.e., a subnetwork) can match the performance of the full model. In this paper, we study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Chen Liang , Simiao Zuo , Minshuo Chen , Haoming Jiang , Xiaodong Liu , Pengcheng He , Tuo Zhao , Weizhu Chen

In natural language processing (NLP), enormous pre-trained models like BERT have become the standard starting point for training on a range of downstream tasks, and similar trends are emerging in other areas of deep learning. In parallel,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tianlong Chen , Jonathan Frankle , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Yang Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Michael Carbin

The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that dense networks contain sparse subnetworks that can be trained in isolation to match full-model performance. Existing approaches-iterative pruning, dynamic sparse training, and pruning at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Qihang Yao , Constantine Dovrolis

The strong lottery ticket hypothesis holds the promise that pruning randomly initialized deep neural networks could offer a computationally efficient alternative to deep learning with stochastic gradient descent. Common parameter…

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

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

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

Despite the great success of deep learning, recent works show that large deep neural networks are often highly redundant and can be significantly reduced in size. However, the theoretical question of how much we can prune a neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Mao Ye , Lemeng Wu , Qiang Liu

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

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

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

Pruning at initialization (PaI) reduces training costs by removing weights before training, which becomes increasingly crucial with the growing network size. However, current PaI methods still have a large accuracy gap with iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Shengkai Liu , Yaofeng Cheng , Fusheng Zha , Wei Guo , Lining Sun , Zhenshan Bing , Chenguang Yang

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 existence of "lottery tickets" arXiv:1803.03635 at or near initialization raises the tantalizing question of whether large models are necessary in deep learning, or whether sparse networks can be quickly identified and trained without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-26 Tanishq Kumar , Kevin Luo , Mark Sellke

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

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