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Routing the Lottery: When Pruning Learns to Choose

A model can be small and still be badly organized. That is the quiet problem behind a lot of model compression work. We often ask whether a neural network can be pruned without losing too much accuracy. Fair enough. Budgets are real. Memory is not decorative. But the question hides a stronger assumption: that one sparse structure should serve every input equally well. ...

January 30, 2026 · 18 min · Zelina