Pruning at Initialization -- A Sketching Perspective

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Auteurs principaux: Bar, Noga, Giryes, Raja
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author Bar, Noga
Giryes, Raja
author_facet Bar, Noga
Giryes, Raja
contents The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has increased attention to pruning neural networks at initialization. We study this problem in the linear setting. We show that finding a sparse mask at initialization is equivalent to the sketching problem introduced for efficient matrix multiplication. This gives us tools to analyze the LTH problem and gain insights into it. Specifically, using the mask found at initialization, we bound the approximation error of the pruned linear model at the end of training. We theoretically justify previous empirical evidence that the search for sparse networks may be data independent. By using the sketching perspective, we suggest a generic improvement to existing algorithms for pruning at initialization, which we show to be beneficial in the data-independent case.
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spellingShingle Pruning at Initialization -- A Sketching Perspective
Bar, Noga
Giryes, Raja
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The lottery ticket hypothesis (LTH) has increased attention to pruning neural networks at initialization. We study this problem in the linear setting. We show that finding a sparse mask at initialization is equivalent to the sketching problem introduced for efficient matrix multiplication. This gives us tools to analyze the LTH problem and gain insights into it. Specifically, using the mask found at initialization, we bound the approximation error of the pruned linear model at the end of training. We theoretically justify previous empirical evidence that the search for sparse networks may be data independent. By using the sketching perspective, we suggest a generic improvement to existing algorithms for pruning at initialization, which we show to be beneficial in the data-independent case.
title Pruning at Initialization -- A Sketching Perspective
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17559