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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

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

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

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

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

Skin cancer affects a large population every year -- automated skin cancer detection algorithms can thus greatly help clinicians. Prior efforts involving deep learning models have high detection accuracy. However, most of the models have a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Sherin Muckatira

Recent works on Lottery Ticket Hypothesis have shown that pre-trained language models (PLMs) contain smaller matching subnetworks(winning tickets) which are capable of reaching accuracy comparable to the original models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Rui Zheng , Rong Bao , Yuhao Zhou , Di Liang , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Large Transformer-based models were shown to be reducible to a smaller number of self-attention heads and layers. We consider this phenomenon from the perspective of the lottery ticket hypothesis, using both structured and magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sai Prasanna , Anna Rogers , Anna Rumshisky

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 recent "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" paper by Frankle & Carbin showed that a simple approach to creating sparse networks (keeping the large weights) results in models that are trainable from scratch, but only when starting from the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Hattie Zhou , Janice Lan , Rosanne Liu , Jason Yosinski

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has increased attention to pruning neural networks at initialization. We study this problem in the linear setting. We show that finding a sparse mask at initialization is equivalent to the sketching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis is a conjecture that every large neural network contains a subnetwork that, when trained in isolation, achieves comparable performance to the large network. An even stronger conjecture has been proven recently:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Laurent Orseau , Marcus Hutter , Omar Rivasplata

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 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

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

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

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.…

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

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

Deep generative adversarial networks (GANs) have gained growing popularity in numerous scenarios, while usually suffer from high parameter complexities for resource-constrained real-world applications. However, the compression of GANs has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Xuxi Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Yongduo Sui , Tianlong Chen