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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) 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

The lottery ticket hypothesis questions the role of overparameterization in supervised deep learning. But how is the performance of winning lottery tickets affected by the distributional shift inherent to reinforcement learning problems? In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Marc Aurel Vischer , Robert Tjarko Lange , Henning Sprekeler

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) suggests there exists a sparse LTH mask and weights that achieve the same generalization performance as the dense model while using significantly fewer parameters. However, finding a LTH solution is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Mohammed Adnan , Rohan Jain , Ekansh Sharma , Rahul G. Krishnan , Yani Ioannou

We introduce a generalization to the lottery ticket hypothesis in which the notion of "sparsity" is relaxed by choosing an arbitrary basis in the space of parameters. We present evidence that the original results reported for the canonical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin , Larisa Markeeva , Daniel Keysers , Ilya Tolstikhin

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful and flexible neural networks that use the naturally sparse connectivity information of the data. GNNs represent this connectivity as sparse matrices, which have lower arithmetic intensity and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alok Tripathy , Katherine Yelick , Aydin Buluc

Despite tremendous success in many application scenarios, the training and inference costs of using deep learning are also rapidly increasing over time. The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) emerges as a promising framework to leverage a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xuxi Chen , Tianlong Chen , Zhenyu Zhang , Zhangyang Wang

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

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) with limited real image data generally results in deteriorated performance and collapsed models. To conquer this challenge, we are inspired by the latest observation, that one can discover…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Jingjing Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Due to the significant computational challenge of training large-scale graph neural networks (GNNs), various sparse learning techniques have been exploited to reduce memory and storage costs. Examples include \textit{graph sparsification}…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Shuai Zhang , Meng Wang , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Songtao Lu , Miao Liu

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

Yes. In this paper, we investigate strong lottery tickets in generative models, the subnetworks that achieve good generative performance without any weight update. Neural network pruning is considered the main cornerstone of model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Sangyeop Yeo , Yoojin Jang , Jy-yong Sohn , Dongyoon Han , Jaejun Yoo

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

As graphs scale to billions of nodes and edges, graph Machine Learning workloads are constrained by the cost of multi-hop traversals over exponentially growing neighborhoods. While various system-level and algorithmic optimizations have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuhang Song , Naima Abrar Shami , Romaric Duvignau , Vasiliki Kalavri

The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that sparse, sub-networks of a given neural network, if initialized properly, can be trained to reach comparable or even better performance to that of the original network. Prior works in lottery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Neha Mukund Kalibhat , Yogesh Balaji , Soheil Feizi

Grokking is an intriguing phenomenon of delayed generalization, where neural networks initially memorize training data with perfect accuracy but exhibit poor generalization, subsequently transitioning to a generalizing solution with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Gouki Minegishi , Yusuke Iwasawa , Yutaka Matsuo

The conventional lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) claims that there exists a sparse subnetwork within a dense neural network and a proper random initialization method called the winning ticket, such that it can be trained from scratch to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Xuan Shen , Zhenglun Kong , Minghai Qin , Peiyan Dong , Geng Yuan , Xin Meng , Hao Tang , Xiaolong Ma , Yanzhi Wang

Expansion property of a graph refers to its strong connectivity as well as sparseness. It has been reported that deep neural networks can be pruned to a high degree of sparsity while maintaining their performance. Such pruning is essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Suryam Arnav Kalra , Arindam Biswas , Pabitra Mitra , Biswajit Basu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved notable success in the analysis of non-Euclidean data across a wide range of domains. However, their applicability is constrained by the dependence on the observed graph structure. To solve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Ziyan Wang , Yaxuan He , Bin Liu