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Sparse Transfer Learning via Winning Lottery Tickets

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arxiv 1905.07785 v2 pith:JRI5U2YB submitted 2019-05-19 cs.LG cs.NEstat.ML

classification cs.LGcs.NEstat.ML
keywords lotterynetworksparseweightsaccuracyhypothesisinitializationlearning
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The recently proposed Lottery Ticket Hypothesis of Frankle and Carbin (2019) suggests that the performance of over-parameterized deep networks is due to the random initialization seeding the network with a small fraction of favorable weights. These weights retain their dominant status throughout training -- in a very real sense, this sub-network "won the lottery" during initialization. The authors find sub-networks via unstructured magnitude pruning with 85-95% of parameters removed that train to the same accuracy as the original network at a similar speed, which they call winning tickets. In this paper, we extend the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis to a variety of transfer learning tasks. We show that sparse sub-networks with approximately 90-95% of weights removed achieve (and often exceed) the accuracy of the original dense network in several realistic settings. We experimentally validate this by transferring the sparse representation found via pruning on CIFAR-10 to SmallNORB and FashionMNIST for object recognition tasks.

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