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The strong lottery ticket hypothesis (SLTH) conjectures that high-performing subnetworks, called strong lottery tickets (SLTs), are hidden in randomly initialized neural networks. Although recent theoretical studies have established the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Hikari Otsuka , Daiki Chijiwa , Yasuyuki Okoshi , Daichi Fujiki , Susumu Takeuchi , Masato Motomura

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

Graph learning methods help utilize implicit relationships among data items, thereby reducing training label requirements and improving task performance. However, determining the optimal graph structure for a particular learning task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Anton Tsitsulin , Bryan Perozzi

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

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

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

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 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

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

Large-scale pre-training has recently revolutionized vision-and-language (VL) research. Models such as LXMERT and UNITER have significantly lifted the state of the art over a wide range of VL tasks. However, the large number of parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Zhe Gan , Yen-Chun Chen , Linjie Li , Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Shuohang Wang , Jingjing Liu , Lijuan Wang , Zicheng Liu

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 Lottery Ticket Hypothesis asserts the existence of highly sparse, trainable subnetworks ('winning tickets') within dense, randomly initialized neural networks. However, state-of-the-art methods of drawing these tickets, like Lottery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tanay Arora , Christof Teuscher

The recent lottery ticket hypothesis proposes that there is one sub-network that matches the accuracy of the original network when trained in isolation. We show that instead each network contains several winning tickets, even if the initial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Kathrin Grosse , Michael Backes

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 strong {\it lottery ticket hypothesis} (LTH) postulates that one can approximate any target neural network by only pruning the weights of a sufficiently over-parameterized random network. A recent work by Malach et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ankit Pensia , Shashank Rajput , Alliot Nagle , Harit Vishwakarma , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) reveals the existence of winning tickets (sparse but critical subnetworks) for dense networks, that can be trained in isolation from random initialization to match the latter's accuracies. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhenyu Zhang , Xuxi Chen , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

According to the Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, every sufficiently large neural network with randomly initialized weights contains a sub-network which - still with its random weights - already performs as well for a given task as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Philipp Altmann , Julian Schönberger , Maximilian Zorn , Thomas Gabor

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis continues to have a profound practical impact on the quest for small scale deep neural networks that solve modern deep learning tasks at competitive performance. These lottery tickets are identified by pruning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Rebekka Burkholz

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

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