101 - The lottery ticket hypothesis, with Jonathan Frankle

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In this episode, Jonathan Frankle describes the lottery ticket hypothesis, a popular explanation of how over-parameterization helps in training neural networks. We discuss pruning methods used to uncover subnetworks (winning tickets) which were initialized in a particularly effective way. We also discuss patterns observed in pruned networks, stability of networks pruned at different time steps and transferring uncovered subnetworks across tasks, among other topics. A recent paper on the topic by Frankle and Carbin, ICLR 2019: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635 Jonathan Frankle’s homepage: http://www.jfrankle.com/