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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

We introduce a generalization to the lottery ticket hypothesis in which the notion of "sparsity" is relaxed by choosing an arbitrary basis in the space of parameters. We present evidence that the original results reported for the canonical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin , Larisa Markeeva , Daniel Keysers , Ilya Tolstikhin

The lottery ticket hypothesis posits the existence of ``winning tickets'' within a randomly initialized neural network. Do winning tickets exist for LLMs in fine-tuning scenarios? How can we find such winning tickets? In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Fei Yuan , Chang Ma , Shuai Yuan , Qiushi Sun , Lei Li

Over-parameterized neural networks incur prohibitive memory and computational costs for resource-constrained deployment. The Strong Lottery Ticket (SLT) hypothesis suggests that randomly initialized networks contain sparse subnetworks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Itamar Tsayag , Ofir Lindenbaum

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) showed that by iteratively training a model, removing connections with the lowest global weight magnitude and rewinding the remaining connections, sparse networks can be extracted. This global comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Benjamin Vandersmissen , Jose Oramas

There have been long-standing controversies and inconsistencies over the experiment setup and criteria for identifying the "winning ticket" in literature. To reconcile such, we revisit the definition of lottery ticket hypothesis, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Xiaolong Ma , Geng Yuan , Xuan Shen , Tianlong Chen , Xuxi Chen , Xiaohan Chen , Ning Liu , Minghai Qin , Sijia Liu , Zhangyang Wang , Yanzhi Wang

Classical statistical learning theory predicts that overparameterized models should exhibit severe overfitting, yet modern deep neural networks with far more parameters than training samples consistently generalize well. This contradiction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zeran Johannsen

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

Recent work has shown that renormalisation group theory is a useful framework with which to describe the process of pruning neural networks via iterative magnitude pruning. This report formally describes the link between RG theory and IMP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Edward Prideaux-Ghee

This thesis delves into the intricate world of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), focusing on the exciting concept of the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH). The LTH posits that within extensive DNNs, smaller, trainable subnetworks termed "winning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Abu-Al Hassan

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

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

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

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) claims that a deep neural network (i.e., ground network) contains a number of subnetworks (i.e., winning tickets), each of which exhibiting identically accurate inference capability as that of the ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Sejin Seo , Seung-Woo Ko , Jihong Park , Seong-Lyun Kim , Mehdi Bennis

Large-scale pretrained models such as LXMERT are becoming popular for learning cross-modal representations on text-image pairs for vision-language tasks. According to the lottery ticket hypothesis, NLP and computer vision models contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Maryam Hashemi , Ghazaleh Mahmoudi , Sara Kodeiri , Hadi Sheikhi , Sauleh Eetemadi

Graph learning methods help utilize implicit relationships among data items, thereby reducing training label requirements and improving task performance. However, determining the optimal graph structure for a particular learning task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Anton Tsitsulin , Bryan Perozzi

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has shown that dense models contain highly sparse subnetworks (i.e., winning tickets) that can be trained in isolation to match full accuracy. Despite many exciting efforts being made, there is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianlong Chen , Xuxi Chen , Xiaolong Ma , Yanzhi Wang , Zhangyang Wang

Current state-of-the-art results in Music Information Retrieval are largely dominated by deep learning approaches. These provide unprecedented accuracy across all tasks. However, the consistently overlooked downside of these models is their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Philippe Esling , Theis Bazin , Adrien Bitton , Tristan Carsault , Ninon Devis

Considerable research efforts have recently been made to show that a random neural network $N$ contains subnetworks capable of accurately approximating any given neural network that is sufficiently smaller than $N$, without any training.…

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
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