arXiv:2606. 12278v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural network pruning reduces model size by removing less important parameters while aiming to preserve predictive performance.
By Romana Qureshi, Hafida Benhidour, Said Kerrache, Nahlah Aljeraisy
Neural network pruning reduces model size by removing less important parameters while aiming to preserve predictive performance. Although the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) shows that sparse subnetworks can match dense networks when trained from suitable initializations, its iterative pruning procedure requires multiple complete training cycles.
arXiv:2608. 08624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Domain generalization (DG) and neural network pruning are conventionally treated as distinct objectives, targeting out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness and model efficiency, respectively.
By Parham Sazdar, Mostafa Tavassolipour, Reshad Hosseini
arXiv:2607. 03860v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) asserts that sufficiently overparameterized, randomly initialized neural networks contain sparse subnetworks that, even without any training, can match the performance of a small trained network on a given dataset.
By Aakash Kumar, Emanuele Natale
arXiv:2510. 14812v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured weight sparsity accelerates training and inference on modern GPUs, but it trails unstructured dynamic sparse training (DST) in accuracy especially at extreme sparsity.
By Abhishek Tyagi, Arjun Iyer, Liam Young, William H Renninger, Christopher Kanan, Yuhao Zhu
arXiv:2608. 06630v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pruning reduces the inference cost of large language models, but existing criteria primarily preserve large activations or reconstruct layer outputs.
By Linghao Kong, Inimai Subramanian, Micah Adler, Dan Alistarh, Dan Gutfreund, Nir Shavit