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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 (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

Transfer learning leverages feature representations of deep neural networks (DNNs) pretrained on source tasks with rich data to empower effective finetuning on downstream tasks. However, the pretrained models are often prohibitively large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Ye Yuan , Shang Wu , Jiayi Yuan , Yingyan Celine Lin

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

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

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) offer uncertainty quantification but come with the downside of substantially increased training and inference costs. Sparse BNNs have been investigated for efficient inference, typically by either slowly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Junbo Li , Zichen Miao , Qiang Qiu , Ruqi Zhang

Random masks define surprisingly effective sparse neural network models, as has been shown empirically. The resulting sparse networks can often compete with dense architectures and state-of-the-art lottery ticket pruning algorithms, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Advait Gadhikar , Sohom Mukherjee , Rebekka Burkholz

Bayesian network (BN) structure discovery algorithms typically either make assumptions about the sparsity of the true underlying network, or are limited by computational constraints to networks with a small number of variables. While these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-14 Luke Duttweiler , Sally W. Thurston , Anthony Almudevar

This paper proposes a sparse Bayesian treatment of deep neural networks (DNNs) for system identification. Although DNNs show impressive approximation ability in various fields, several challenges still exist for system identification…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-02 Hongpeng Zhou , Chahine Ibrahim , Wei Xing Zheng , Wei Pan

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

Bayesian approaches for learning deep neural networks (BNN) have been received much attention and successfully applied to various applications. Particularly, BNNs have the merit of having better generalization ability as well as better…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 Insung Kong , Dongyoon Yang , Jongjin Lee , Ilsang Ohn , Gyuseung Baek , Yongdai Kim

Recent works on Lottery Ticket Hypothesis have shown that pre-trained language models (PLMs) contain smaller matching subnetworks(winning tickets) which are capable of reaching accuracy comparable to the original models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Rui Zheng , Rong Bao , Yuhao Zhou , Di Liang , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

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

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) augment deep networks with uncertainty quantification by Bayesian treatment of the network weights. However, such models face the challenge of Bayesian inference in a high-dimensional and usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhijie Deng , Yucen Luo , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

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

Sparse Neural Networks (NNs) can match the generalization of dense NNs using a fraction of the compute/storage for inference, and also have the potential to enable efficient training. However, naively training unstructured sparse NNs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Utku Evci , Yani A. Ioannou , Cem Keskin , Yann Dauphin

The strong {\it lottery ticket hypothesis} (LTH) postulates that one can approximate any target neural network by only pruning the weights of a sufficiently over-parameterized random network. A recent work by Malach et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Ankit Pensia , Shashank Rajput , Alliot Nagle , Harit Vishwakarma , Dimitris Papailiopoulos

The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has increased attention to pruning neural networks at initialization. We study this problem in the linear setting. We show that finding a sparse mask at initialization is equivalent to the sketching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Noga Bar , Raja Giryes

As data size and computing power increase, the architectures of deep neural networks (DNNs) have been getting more complex and huge, and thus there is a growing need to simplify such complex and huge DNNs. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-24 Insung Kong , Dongyoon Yang , Jongjin Lee , Ilsang Ohn , Yongdai Kim

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have recently regained a significant amount of attention in the deep learning community due to the development of scalable approximate Bayesian inference techniques. There are several advantages of using a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-02 Aliaksandr Hubin , Geir Storvik
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