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Real time application of deep learning algorithms is often hindered by high computational complexity and frequent memory accesses. Network pruning is a promising technique to solve this problem. However, pruning usually results in irregular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Sajid Anwar , Kyuyeon Hwang , Wonyong Sung

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have relied heavily on increasingly large neural networks, raising concerns about their computational and environmental costs. This paper investigates whether simpler, sparser networks can maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 C. Díaz-Faloh , R. Mulet

Large language models have demonstrated capabilities in text generation, while their increasing parameter scales present challenges in computational and memory efficiency. Post-training sparsity (PTS), which reduces model cost by removing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Minhao Jiang , Zhikai Li , Xuewen Liu , Jing Zhang , Mengjuan Chen , Qingyi Gu

We consider sketching algorithms which first quickly compress data by multiplication with a random sketch matrix, and then apply the sketch to quickly solve an optimization problem, e.g., low rank approximation. In the learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Simin Liu , Tianrui Liu , Ali Vakilian , Yulin Wan , David P. Woodruff

In recent years, randomized methods for numerical linear algebra have received growing interest as a general approach to large-scale problems. Typically, the essential ingredient of these methods is some form of randomized dimension…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-05 Miles E. Lopes , Shusen Wang , Michael W. Mahoney

We investigate hybrid linear-morphological networks. Recent studies highlight the inherent affinity of morphological layers to pruning, but also their difficulty in training. We propose a hybrid network structure, wherein morphological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Konstantinos Fotopoulos , Christos Garoufis , Petros Maragos

Matrices arising in scientific applications frequently admit linear low-rank approximations due to smoothness in the physical and/or temporal domain of the problem. In large-scale problems, computing an optimal low-rank approximation can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Alec Michael Dunton , Alireza Doostan

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

A number of recent approaches have been proposed for pruning neural network parameters at initialization with the goal of reducing the size and computational burden of models while minimally affecting their training dynamics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Thomas Gebhart , Udit Saxena , Paul Schrater

Despite the success of diffusion models, the training and inference of diffusion models are notoriously expensive due to the long chain of the reverse process. In parallel, the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) claims that there exists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Chao Jiang , Bo Hui , Bohan Liu , Da Yan

Pruning deep neural networks is a widely used strategy to alleviate the computational burden in machine learning. Overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that pruned models retain very high accuracy even with a tiny fraction of parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Viplove Arora , Daniele Irto , Sebastian Goldt , Guido Sanguinetti

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) showed that by iteratively training a model, removing connections with the lowest global weight magnitude and rewinding the remaining connections, sparse networks can be extracted. This global comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Benjamin Vandersmissen , Jose Oramas

We propose a novel network pruning approach by information preserving of pre-trained network weights (filters). Network pruning with the information preserving is formulated as a matrix sketch problem, which is efficiently solved by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Mingbao Lin , Liujuan Cao , Shaojie Li , Qixiang Ye , Yonghong Tian , Jianzhuang Liu , Qi Tian , Rongrong Ji

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

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

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

Pruning methods have recently grown in popularity as an effective way to reduce the size and computational complexity of deep neural networks. Large numbers of parameters can be removed from trained models with little discernible loss in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Tim Whitaker , Darrell Whitley

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) are widely used to solve a variety of problems and as the quantity of data and the amount of available compute have increased, so have model sizes. The number of parameters in recent state-of-the-art networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Sharan Narang , Erich Elsen , Gregory Diamos , Shubho Sengupta

The idea of unfolding iterative algorithms as deep neural networks has been widely applied in solving sparse coding problems, providing both solid theoretical analysis in convergence rate and superior empirical performance. However, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yuhai Song , Zhong Cao , Kailun Wu , Ziang Yan , Changshui Zhang

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