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The \textit{lottery ticket hypothesis} (LTH) states that learning on a properly pruned network (the \textit{winning ticket}) improves test accuracy over the original unpruned network. Although LTH has been justified empirically in a broad…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinjun Xiong

Network pruning has been known to produce compact models without much accuracy degradation. However, how the pruning process affects a network's robustness and the working mechanism behind remain unresolved. In this work, we theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shufan Wang , Ningyi Liao , Liyao Xiang , Nanyang Ye , Quanshi Zhang

Recent advances in neural network pruning have shown how it is possible to reduce the computational costs and memory demands of deep learning models before training. We focus on this framework and propose a new pruning at initialization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Leonardo Iurada , Marco Ciccone , Tatiana Tommasi

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

Works on lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) and single-shot network pruning (SNIP) have raised a lot of attention currently on post-training pruning (iterative magnitude pruning), and before-training pruning (pruning at initialization). The…

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) reveals the existence of winning tickets (sparse but critical subnetworks) for dense networks, that can be trained in isolation from random initialization to match the latter's accuracies. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhenyu Zhang , Xuxi Chen , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

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

Weight pruning is an effective technique to reduce the model size and inference time for deep neural networks in real-world deployments. However, since magnitudes and relative importance of weights are very different for different layers of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Xiao Zhou , Weizhong Zhang , Hang Xu , Tong Zhang

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

Randomly initialized dense networks contain subnetworks that achieve high accuracy without weight learning--strong lottery tickets (SLTs). Recently, Gadhikar et al. (2023) demonstrated that SLTs could also be found within a randomly pruned…

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

Neural network pruning is a widely used strategy for reducing model storage and computing requirements. It allows to lower the complexity of the network by introducing sparsity in the weights. Because taking advantage of sparse matrices is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

Pruning neural networks has regained interest in recent years as a means to compress state-of-the-art deep neural networks and enable their deployment on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose a robust compressive learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 George Retsinas , Athena Elafrou , Georgios Goumas , Petros Maragos

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

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

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

Network pruning is widely used for reducing the heavy inference cost of deep models in low-resource settings. A typical pruning algorithm is a three-stage pipeline, i.e., training (a large model), pruning and fine-tuning. During pruning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhuang Liu , Mingjie Sun , Tinghui Zhou , Gao Huang , Trevor Darrell

Deep Neural Networks have been used in a wide variety of applications with significant success. However, their highly complex nature owing to comprising millions of parameters has lead to problems during deployment in pipelines with low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Elvis Johnson , Xiaochen Tang , Sriramacharyulu Samudrala

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have relied heavily on increasingly large neural networks, raising concerns about their computational and environmental costs. This paper investigates whether simpler, sparser networks can maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 C. Díaz-Faloh , R. Mulet

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