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Logarithmic Pruning is All You Need
Laurent Orseau · Marcus Hutter · Omar Rivasplata

Tue Dec 08 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Poster Session 1 #297
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The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis is a conjecture that every large neural network contains a subnetwork that, when trained in isolation, achieves comparable performance to the large network. An even stronger conjecture has been proven recently: Every sufficiently overparameterized network contains a subnetwork that, even without training, achieves comparable accuracy to the trained large network. This theorem, however, relies on a number of strong assumptions and guarantees a polynomial factor on the size of the large network compared to the target function. In this work, we remove the most limiting assumptions of this previous work while providing significantly tighter bounds: the overparameterized network only needs a logarithmic factor (in all variables but depth) number of neurons per weight of the target subnetwork.

Author Information

Laurent Orseau (DeepMind)
Marcus Hutter (DeepMind)
Omar Rivasplata (DeepMind & UCL)

Back in the day I studied undergraduate maths (BSc 2000, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) and graduate maths (MSc 2005, PhD 2012, University of Alberta). In 2017 I joined UCL Computer Science to do research studies in machine learning, sponsored by DeepMind. My top-level research areas are learning theory, probability and statistics. These days I am very interested in deep learning and reinforcement learning.

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