On Neural Network Pruning’s Effect on Generalization

Practitioners frequently observe that pruning improves model generalization. A longstanding hypothesis attributes such improvement to model size reduction. However, recent studies on over-parameterization characterize a new model size regime, in which larger models achieve better generalization. A c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jin, Tian
Other Authors: Carbin, Michael
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/147496