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Recently, Frankle & Carbin (2019) demonstrated that randomly-initialized dense networks contain subnetworks that once found can be trained to reach test accuracy comparable to the trained dense network. However, finding these high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura

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 (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

Deploying energy-efficient deep learning algorithms on computational-limited devices, such as robots, is still a pressing issue for real-world applications. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), a novel brain-inspired algorithm, offer a promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Hao Cheng , Jiahang Cao , Erjia Xiao , Mengshu Sun , Renjing Xu

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) tend to suffer from high computation costs due to the exponentially increasing scale of graph data and the number of model parameters, which restricts their utility in practical applications. To this end, some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Chuang Liu , Xueqi Ma , Yibing Zhan , Liang Ding , Dapeng Tao , Bo Du , Wenbin Hu , Danilo Mandic

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) raises keen attention to identifying sparse trainable subnetworks, or winning tickets, which can be trained in isolation to achieve similar or even better performance compared to the full models. Despite many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Xiaohan Chen , Yu Cheng , Shuohang Wang , Zhe Gan , Jingjing Liu , Zhangyang Wang

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

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) are a useful tool for uncertainty quantification, but require substantially more computational resources than conventional neural networks. For non-Bayesian networks, the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Nicholas Kuhn , Arvid Weyrauch , Lars Heyen , Achim Streit , Markus Götz , Charlotte Debus

The computer vision world has been re-gaining enthusiasm in various pre-trained models, including both classical ImageNet supervised pre-training and recently emerged self-supervised pre-training such as simCLR and MoCo. Pre-trained weights…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Tianlong Chen , Jonathan Frankle , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Yang Zhang , Michael Carbin , Zhangyang Wang

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely applied to graph learning problems such as node classification. When scaling up the underlying graphs of GNNs to a larger size, we are forced to either train on the complete graph and keep the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Mucong Ding , Tahseen Rabbani , Bang An , Evan Z Wang , Furong Huang

The Multi-Prize Lottery Ticket Hypothesis posits that randomly initialized neural networks contain several subnetworks that achieve comparable accuracy to fully trained models of the same architecture. However, current methods require that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Matt Gorbett , Darrell Whitley

In deep model compression, the recent finding "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" (LTH) (Frankle & Carbin, 2018) pointed out that there could exist a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Ning Liu , Geng Yuan , Zhengping Che , Xuan Shen , Xiaolong Ma , Qing Jin , Jian Ren , Jian Tang , Sijia Liu , Yanzhi Wang

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…

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

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

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

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

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have well-documented performance in various graph learning tasks, but their analysis is still at its infancy. Graph scattering transforms (GSTs) offer training-free deep GCN models that extract features…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Siheng Chen , Georgios B. Giannakis