Deep learning· 2018
The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks
On the reading lists
- #398 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #44 in Deep learning (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Demonstrated sparse subnetworks capable of effective training, reshaping pruning and initialization research.
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The record
- First released
- 2018 (from arXiv 1803.03635)
- Published
- 2019
- Citations
- 4,519 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Also relevant to
- Machine learning foundations
- Score
- 0.383 · computed rank 398 · consensus 0.53, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.64 (2010s · deep-learning), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.