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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

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

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

Recent work on the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) shows that there exist ``\textit{winning tickets}'' in large neural networks. These tickets represent ``sparse'' versions of the full model that can be trained independently to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Qihan Wang , Chen Dun , Fangshuo Liao , Chris Jermaine , Anastasios Kyrillidis

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) suggests that a dense neural network contains a sparse sub-network that can match the performance of the original dense network when trained in isolation from scratch. Most works retrain the sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ajay Kumar Jaiswal , Haoyu Ma , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

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

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) claims the existence of a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization) that can achieve competitive performance to the original dense network. A recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Bo Hui , Da Yan , Xiaolong Ma , Wei-Shinn Ku

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

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 Lottery Ticket Hypothesis demonstrated that sparse subnetworks can match full-model performance, suggesting parameter redundancy. Meanwhile, in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), recent work has shown that updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Israel Adewuyi , Solomon Okibe , Vladmir Ivanov

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

The lottery ticket hypothesis has sparked the rapid development of pruning algorithms that aim to reduce the computational costs associated with deep learning during training and model deployment. Currently, such algorithms are primarily…

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

Variational quantum algorithms (VQAs) have emerged as the leading strategy to obtain quantum advantage on the current noisy intermediate-scale devices. However, their entanglement-trainability correlation, as the major reason for the barren…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Shikun Zhang , Yang Zhou , Zheng Qin , Rui Li , Chunxiao Du , Zhisong Xiao , Yongyou Zhang

Motivated by reducing the computational and storage costs of LLMs, model compression and KV cache compression have attracted much attention from researchers. However, current methods predominantly emphasize maintaining the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Zhenheng Tang , Xiang Liu , Qian Wang , Peijie Dong , Bingsheng He , Xiaowen Chu , Bo Li

The proposition of lottery ticket hypothesis revealed the relationship between network structure and initialization parameters and the learning potential of neural networks. The original lottery ticket hypothesis performs pruning and weight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Di Zhang

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 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

In pruning, the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis posits that large networks contain sparse subnetworks, or winning tickets, that can be trained in isolation to match the performance of their dense counterparts. However, most existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Grzegorz Stefanski , Alberto Presta , Michal Byra

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), a novel brain-inspired algorithm, are garnering increased attention for their superior computation and energy efficiency over traditional artificial neural networks (ANNs). To facilitate deployment on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Hao Cheng , Jiahang Cao , Erjia Xiao , Mengshu Sun , Le Yang , Jize Zhang , Xue Lin , Bhavya Kailkhura , Kaidi Xu , Renjing Xu