arXiv Machine Learning

Learning Neural Networks by Neuron Pursuit

arXiv:2509. 12154v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The first part of this paper studies the evolution of gradient flow for homogeneous neural networks near a class of saddle points exhibiting a sparsity structure.

arXiv AI
Jun 12

Structured vs. Unstructured Pruning: An Exponential Gap

arXiv:2603. 02234v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) states that large, randomly initialized neural networks contain sparse subnetworks capable of approximating a target function at initialization without training, suggesting that pruning alone is sufficient.

By Davide Ferre' (CNRS, COATI, UniCA, I3S), Fr\'ed\'eric Giroire (I3S, COATI, UniCA), Frederik Mallmann-Trenn (CNRS, COATI, I3S, UniCA), Emanuele Natale (CNRS, COATI, I3S, UniCA)