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Neural network compression techniques have become increasingly popular as they can drastically reduce the storage and computation requirements for very large networks. Recent empirical studies have illustrated that even simple pruning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Melih Barsbey , Milad Sefidgaran , Murat A. Erdogdu , Gaël Richard , Umut Şimşekli

In this paper, we conjecture that if the permutation invariance of neural networks is taken into account, SGD solutions will likely have no barrier in the linear interpolation between them. Although it is a bold conjecture, we show how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Rahim Entezari , Hanie Sedghi , Olga Saukh , Behnam Neyshabur

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

A striking observation about iterative magnitude pruning (IMP; Frankle et al. 2020) is that $\unicode{x2014}$ after just a few hundred steps of dense training $\unicode{x2014}$ the method can find a sparse sub-network that can be trained to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Mansheej Paul , Brett W. Larsen , Surya Ganguli , Jonathan Frankle , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

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

Pruning refers to the elimination of trivial weights from neural networks. The sub-networks within an overparameterized model produced after pruning are often called Lottery tickets. This research aims to generate winning lottery tickets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Md. Ismail Hossain , Mohammed Rakib , M. M. Lutfe Elahi , Nabeel Mohammed , Shafin Rahman

Recent works have shown that Dataset Distillation, the process for summarizing the training data, can be leveraged to accelerate the training of deep learning models. However, its impact on training dynamics, particularly in neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Luke McDermott , Rahul Parhi

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

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

In this paper, we explore the performance of different pruning methods in the context of the lottery ticket hypothesis. We compare the performance of L1 unstructured pruning, Fisher pruning, and random pruning on different network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Eirik Fladmark , Muhammad Hamza Sajjad , Laura Brinkholm Justesen

The advancement of deep learning has led to the development of neural decoders for low latency communications. However, neural decoders can be very complex which can lead to increased computation and latency. We consider iterative pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Vikrant Malik , Rohan Ghosh , Mehul Motani

Training a deep neural network (DNN) often involves stochastic optimization, which means each run will produce a different model. Several works suggest this variability is negligible when models have the same performance, which in the case…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Sinjini Banerjee , Reilly Cannon , Tim Marrinan , Tony Chiang , Anand D. Sarwate

Robustness and counterfactual bias are usually evaluated on a test dataset. However, are these evaluations robust? If the test dataset is perturbed slightly, will the evaluation results keep the same? In this paper, we propose a "double…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Chong Zhang , Jieyu Zhao , Huan Zhang , Kai-Wei Chang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

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

Network pruning is a method for reducing test-time computational resource requirements with minimal performance degradation. Conventional wisdom of pruning algorithms suggests that: (1) Pruning methods exploit information from training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Jingtong Su , Yihang Chen , Tianle Cai , Tianhao Wu , Ruiqi Gao , Liwei Wang , Jason D. Lee

Inspired by Regularized Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (RLTH), which states that competitive smooth (non-binary) subnetworks exist within a dense network in continual learning tasks, we investigate two proposed architecture-based continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Haeyong Kang , Jaehong Yoon , Sultan Rizky Madjid , Sung Ju Hwang , Chang D. Yoo

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

Singular-value-decomposition-based coherent integrated photonic neural networks (SC-IPNNs) have a large footprint, suffer from high static power consumption for training and inference, and cannot be pruned using conventional DNN pruning…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Sanmitra Banerjee , Mahdi Nikdast , Sudeep Pasricha , Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Recent advancements in large language models demonstrate that injecting perturbations can substantially enhance extrapolation performance. However, current approaches often rely on discrete perturbations with fixed designs, which limits…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-14 Zetai Cen , Chenfei Gu , Jin Zhu , Ting Li , Yunxiao Chen , Chengchun Shi

We demonstrate that, hidden within one-layer randomly weighted neural networks, there exist subnetworks that can achieve impressive performance, without ever modifying the weight initializations, on machine translation tasks. To find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Sheng Shen , Zhewei Yao , Douwe Kiela , Kurt Keutzer , Michael W. Mahoney