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In deep model compression, the recent finding "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" (LTH) (Frankle & Carbin, 2018) pointed out that there could exist a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Ning Liu , Geng Yuan , Zhengping Che , Xuan Shen , Xiaolong Ma , Qing Jin , Jian Ren , Jian Tang , Sijia Liu , Yanzhi Wang

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

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) states that for a reasonably sized neural network, a sub-network within the same network yields no less performance than the dense counterpart when trained from the same initialization. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Surya Kant Sahu , Sai Mitheran , Somya Suhans Mahapatra

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) suggests there exists a sparse LTH mask and weights that achieve the same generalization performance as the dense model while using significantly fewer parameters. However, finding a LTH solution is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Mohammed Adnan , Rohan Jain , Ekansh Sharma , Rahul G. Krishnan , Yani Ioannou

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

The recently proposed Lottery Ticket Hypothesis of Frankle and Carbin (2019) suggests that the performance of over-parameterized deep networks is due to the random initialization seeding the network with a small fraction of favorable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Rahul Mehta

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

Transfer learning leverages feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) pretrained on source tasks with rich data to empower effective finetuning on downstream tasks. However, the pretrained models are often prohibitively large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Ye Yuan , Shang Wu , Jiayi Yuan , Yingyan Celine Lin

The observation of sparse trainable sub-networks within over-parametrized networks - also known as Lottery Tickets (LTs) - has prompted inquiries around their trainability, scaling, uniqueness, and generalization properties. Across 28…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Michela Paganini , Jessica Zosa Forde

Recent research has proposed the lottery ticket hypothesis, suggesting that for a deep neural network, there exist trainable sub-networks performing equally or better than the original model with commensurate training steps. While this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Bai Li , Shiqi Wang , Yunhan Jia , Yantao Lu , Zhenyu Zhong , Lawrence Carin , Suman Jana

Building modern deep learning systems that are not just effective but also efficient requires rethinking established paradigms for model training and neural architecture design. Instead of adapting highly overparameterized networks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Julian Schönberger , Maximilian Zorn , Jonas Nüßlein , Thomas Gabor , Philipp Altmann

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) states that a randomly-initialized large neural network contains a small sub-network (i.e., winning tickets) which, when trained in isolation, can achieve comparable performance to the large network. LTH…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Man Yao , Yuhong Chou , Guangshe Zhao , Xiawu Zheng , Yonghong Tian , Bo Xu , Guoqi Li

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

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) claims the existence of a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization) that can achieve competitive performance to the original dense network. A recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Bo Hui , Da Yan , Xiaolong Ma , Wei-Shinn Ku

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

We study the generalization properties of pruned neural networks that are the winners of the lottery ticket hypothesis on datasets of natural images. We analyse their potential under conditions in which training data is scarce and comes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Matthia Sabatelli , Mike Kestemont , Pierre Geurts

Neural network pruning techniques can reduce the parameter counts of trained networks by over 90%, decreasing storage requirements and improving computational performance of inference without compromising accuracy. However, contemporary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Jonathan Frankle , Michael Carbin

The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that sparse, sub-networks of a given neural network, if initialized properly, can be trained to reach comparable or even better performance to that of the original network. Prior works in lottery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Neha Mukund Kalibhat , Yogesh Balaji , Soheil Feizi

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

Recent advances in deepfake technology have created increasingly convincing synthetic media that poses significant challenges to information integrity and social trust. While current detection methods show promise, their underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lisan Al Amin , Md. Ismail Hossain , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Tasnim Jahan , Mahbubul Islam , Faisal Quader