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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

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 states that sparse subnetworks exist in randomly initialized dense networks that can be trained to the same accuracy as the dense network they reside in. However, the subsequent work has failed to replicate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Jaron Maene , Mingxiao Li , Marie-Francine Moens

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

Pruning methods can considerably reduce the size of artificial neural networks without harming their performance. In some cases, they can even uncover sub-networks that, when trained in isolation, match or surpass the test accuracy of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Franco Pellegrini , Giulio Biroli

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

The strong lottery ticket hypothesis holds the promise that pruning randomly initialized deep neural networks could offer a computationally efficient alternative to deep learning with stochastic gradient descent. Common parameter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Jonas Fischer , Advait Gadhikar , Rebekka Burkholz

Large Transformer-based models were shown to be reducible to a smaller number of self-attention heads and layers. We consider this phenomenon from the perspective of the lottery ticket hypothesis, using both structured and magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Sai Prasanna , Anna Rogers , Anna Rumshisky

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 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

Randomly initialized dense networks contain subnetworks that achieve high accuracy without weight learning--strong lottery tickets (SLTs). Recently, Gadhikar et al. (2023) demonstrated that SLTs could also be found within a randomly pruned…

Recent advances in deepfake technology have created increasingly convincing synthetic media that poses significant challenges to information integrity and social trust. While current detection methods show promise, their underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Lisan Al Amin , Md. Ismail Hossain , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Tasnim Jahan , Mahbubul Islam , Faisal Quader

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 remarkable performance of deep Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is generally attributed to their deeper and wider architectures, which can come with significant computational costs. Pruning neural networks has thus gained interest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yang He , Lingao Xiao

The lottery ticket hypothesis suggests that dense networks contain sparse subnetworks that can be trained in isolation to match full-model performance. Existing approaches-iterative pruning, dynamic sparse training, and pruning at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Qihang Yao , Constantine Dovrolis

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

Pruning the parameters of deep neural networks has generated intense interest due to potential savings in time, memory and energy both during training and at test time. Recent works have identified, through an expensive sequence of training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Hidenori Tanaka , Daniel Kunin , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Surya Ganguli

This study introduces an innovative approach aimed at the efficient pruning of neural networks, with a particular focus on their deployment on edge devices. Our method involves the integration of the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Rajaram R , Manoj Bharadhwaj , Vasan VS , Nargis Pervin

The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) states that for a reasonably sized neural network, a sub-network within the same network yields no less performance than the dense counterpart when trained from the same initialization. This work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Surya Kant Sahu , Sai Mitheran , Somya Suhans Mahapatra

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