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The lottery ticket hypothesis proposes that over-parameterization of deep neural networks (DNNs) aids training by increasing the probability of a "lucky" sub-network initialization being present rather than by helping the optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Haonan Yu , Sergey Edunov , Yuandong Tian , Ari S. Morcos

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 strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) claims the existence of a subnetwork in a sufficiently large, randomly initialized neural network that approximates some target neural network without the need of training. We extend the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zheyang Xiong , Fangshuo Liao , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Pre-training serves as a broadly adopted starting point for transfer learning on various downstream tasks. Recent investigations of lottery tickets hypothesis (LTH) demonstrate such enormous pre-trained models can be replaced by extremely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Sijia Liu , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Zhangyang Wang

In natural language processing (NLP), enormous pre-trained models like BERT have become the standard starting point for training on a range of downstream tasks, and similar trends are emerging in other areas of deep learning. In parallel,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tianlong Chen , Jonathan Frankle , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Yang Zhang , Zhangyang Wang , Michael Carbin

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have recently emerged as a new generation of low-power deep neural networks, which is suitable to be implemented on low-power mobile/edge devices. As such devices have limited memory storage, neural pruning on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Hyoungseob Park , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Ruokai Yin , Priyadarshini Panda

Pruning is a standard technique for reducing the computational cost of deep networks. Many advances in pruning leverage concepts from the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH). LTH reveals that inside a trained dense network exists sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Artur Jordao , George Correa de Araujo , Helena de Almeida Maia , Helio Pedrini

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

Quantum computing is an emerging field in computer science that has seen considerable progress in recent years, especially in machine learning. By harnessing the principles of quantum physics, it can surpass the limitations of classical…

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

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis suggests large, over-parameterized neural networks consist of small, sparse subnetworks that can be trained in isolation to reach a similar (or better) test accuracy. However, the initialization and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Shrey Desai , Hongyuan Zhan , Ahmed Aly

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) suggests that over-parameterized neural networks contain sparse subnetworks ("winning tickets") capable of matching full model performance when trained from scratch. With the growing reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hamed Damirchi , Cristian Rodriguez-Opazo , Ehsan Abbasnejad , Zhen Zhang , Javen Shi

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

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

The design of sparse neural networks, i.e., of networks with a reduced number of parameters, has been attracting increasing research attention in the last few years. The use of sparse models may significantly reduce the computational and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Giulia Fracastoro , Sophie M. Fosson , Andrea Migliorati , Giuseppe C. Calafiore

The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) states that randomly-initialised neural networks likely contain subnetworks that perform well without any training. Although unstructured pruning has been extensively studied in this context, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Arthur da Cunha , Francesco d'Amore , Emanuele Natale

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

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) 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

Recent work on the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) shows that there exist ``\textit{winning tickets}'' in large neural networks. These tickets represent ``sparse'' versions of the full model that can be trained independently to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Qihan Wang , Chen Dun , Fangshuo Liao , Chris Jermaine , Anastasios Kyrillidis