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The search for efficient, sparse deep neural network models is most prominently performed by pruning: training a dense, overparameterized network and removing parameters, usually via following a manually-crafted heuristic. Additionally, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Pedro Savarese , Hugo Silva , Michael Maire

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

Numerous recent techniques for text style transfer characterize their approaches as variants of reinforcement learning and preference optimization. In this work, we consider the relationship between these approaches and a class of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shuai Liu , Jonathan May

Recently many plug-and-play self-attention modules (SAMs) are proposed to enhance the model generalization by exploiting the internal information of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In general, previous works ignore where to plug…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Zhongzhan Huang , Senwei Liang , Mingfu Liang , Wei He , Haizhao Yang , Liang Lin

Numerous valuable efforts have been devoted to achieving arbitrary style transfer since the seminal work of Gatys et al. However, existing state-of-the-art approaches often generate insufficiently stylized results under challenging cases.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Chunjin Song , Zhijie Wu , Yang Zhou , Minglun Gong , Hui Huang

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) posits the existence of a sparse subnetwork (a.k.a. winning ticket) that can generalize comparably to its over-parameterized counterpart when trained from scratch. The common approach to finding a winning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Junghun Oh , Sungyong Baik , Kyoung Mu Lee

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

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

With the emergence of the Software 3.0 era, there is a growing trend of compressing and integrating large models into software systems, with significant societal implications. Regrettably, in numerous instances, model compression techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Xuanqi Gao , Weipeng Jiang , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma , Xiaoyu Zhang , Chao Shen

Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis using deep learning relies on voice quality. Modern TTS models are advanced, but they need large amount of data. Given the growing computational complexity of these models and the scarcity of large,…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ze Liu

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

Artificial neural networks suffer from catastrophic forgetting when they are sequentially trained on multiple tasks. Many continual learning (CL) strategies are trying to overcome this problem. One of the most effective is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Kamil Książek , Przemysław Spurek

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis postulates that a freshly initialized neural network contains a small subnetwork that can be trained in isolation to achieve similar performance as the full network. Our paper examines several alternatives to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Dániel Lévai , Zsolt Zombori

Large pre-trained transformers are show-stealer in modern-day deep learning, and it becomes crucial to comprehend the parsimonious patterns that exist within them as they grow in scale. With exploding parameter counts, Lottery Ticket…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Ajay Jaiswal , Shiwei Liu , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) demonstrates the existence of high-performing subnetworks within a randomly initialized model, discoverable through pruning a convolutional neural network (CNN) without any weight training. A…

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

The lottery ticket hypothesis (Frankle and Carbin, 2018), states that a randomly-initialized network contains a small subnetwork such that, when trained in isolation, can compete with the performance of the original network. We prove an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Eran Malach , Gilad Yehudai , Shai Shalev-Shwartz , Ohad Shamir

Ensembling is a popular method used to improve performance as a last resort. However, ensembling multiple models finetuned from a single pretrained model has been not very effective; this could be due to the lack of diversity among ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Sosuke Kobayashi , Shun Kiyono , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) is well-studied for convolutional neural networks but has been validated only empirically for graph neural networks (GNNs), for which theoretical findings are largely lacking. In this paper, we identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Lorenz Kummer , Samir Moustafa , Anatol Ehrlich , Franka Bause , Nikolaus Suess , Wilfried N. Gansterer , Nils M. Kriege

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