% Key papers for Sparse training from scratch (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{cvpr2020_group_15624, title = {{Group Sparsity: The Hinge Between Filter Pruning and Decomposition for Network Compression}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2020}, } @inproceedings{iclr2018_deep_28434, title = {{Deep Rewiring: Training very sparse deep networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2018/poster/291}, } @inproceedings{iclr2017_dsd_28289, title = {{DSD: Dense-Sparse-Dense Training for Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=HyoST_9xl}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2021_dynamic_16923, title = {{Dynamic Slimmable Network}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2021}, } @inproceedings{iclr2017_exploring_28242, title = {{Exploring Sparsity in Recurrent Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=BylSPv9gx}, } @inproceedings{aaai2020_learning_103114, title = {{Learning Sparse Sharing Architectures for Multiple Tasks}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/6424}, } @inproceedings{neurips2017_structured_56697, title = {{Structured Bayesian Pruning via Log-Normal Multiplicative Noise}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2017/poster/9445}, } @inproceedings{icml2019_parameter_37644, title = {{Parameter efficient training of deep convolutional neural networks by dynamic sparse reparameterization}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2019/poster/3692}, } @inproceedings{icml2017_combined_36099, title = {{Combined Group and Exclusive Sparsity for Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2017/poster/474}, } @inproceedings{icml2020_soft_38768, title = {{Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2020/poster/5772}, } @inproceedings{aaai2019_balanced_101797, title = {{Balanced Sparsity for Efficient DNN Inference on GPU}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4512}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_learning_30191, title = {{Learning N:M Fine-grained Structured Sparse Neural Networks From Scratch}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/3174}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2018_nestednet_13417, title = {{NestedNet: Learning Nested Sparse Structures in Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/html/Kim_NestedNet_Learning_Nested_CVPR_2018_paper.html}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_mest_62363, title = {{MEST: Accurate and Fast Memory-Economic Sparse Training Framework on the Edge}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/26988}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_the_31342, title = {{The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Random Pruning: Return of the Most Naive Baseline for Sparse Training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6925}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2023_structured_22272, title = {{Structured Sparsity Learning for Efficient Video Super-Resolution}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2023/poster/22025}, } @inproceedings{iclr2020_dynamic_29644, title = {{Dynamic Sparse Training: Find Efficient Sparse Network From Scratch With Trainable Masked Layers}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2020}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=SJlbGJrtDB}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2022_disparse_18661, title = {{DiSparse: Disentangled Sparsification for Multitask Model Compression}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2022}, } @inproceedings{aaai2022_prune_2597, title = {{Prune and Tune Ensembles: Low-Cost Ensemble Learning with Sparse Independent Subnetworks}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/08638-prune-and-tune-ensembles-low-cost-ensemble-learning-with-sparse-independent-subnetworks/}, } @inproceedings{icml2021_do_39265, title = {{Do We Actually Need Dense Over-Parameterization? In-Time Over-Parameterization in Sparse Training}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2021/poster/10199}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_tinytrain_44218, title = {{TinyTrain: Resource-Aware Task-Adaptive Sparse Training of DNNs at the Data-Scarce Edge}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/34234}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_fast_5974, title = {{Fast and Controllable Post-training Sparsity: Learning Optimal Sparsity Allocation with Global Constraint in Minutes}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29108}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_repeated_34148, title = {{Repeated Random Sampling for Minimizing the Time-to-Accuracy of Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18927}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_dynamic_35098, title = {{Dynamic Sparse Training with Structured Sparsity}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17975}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_adaptive_34393, title = {{Adaptive Sharpness-Aware Pruning for Robust Sparse Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18682}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_sparse_35640, title = {{Sparse Model Soups: A Recipe for Improved Pruning via Model Averaging}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17433}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_spade_45359, title = {{SPADE: Sparsity-Guided Debugging for Deep Neural Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33092}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_dynamic_47846, title = {{Dynamic Sparse Training of Diagonally Sparse Networks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44756}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_s_70763, title = {{S-STE: Continuous Pruning Function for Efficient 2:4 Sparse Pre-training}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96363}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_blast_73788, title = {{BLAST: Block-Level Adaptive Structured Matrices for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/93718}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2024_unipts_25133, title = {{UniPTS: A Unified Framework for Proficient Post-Training Sparsity}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://cvpr.thecvf.com/virtual/2024/poster/29868}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_scaling_34999, title = {{Scaling Laws for Sparsely-Connected Foundation Models}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18075}, } @inproceedings{icml2024_sparse_44615, title = {{Sparse-IFT: Sparse Iso-FLOP Transformations for Maximizing Training Efficiency}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2024/poster/33837}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_safe_45885, title = {{SAFE: Finding Sparse and Flat Minima to Improve Pruning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/46658}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_a_47404, title = {{A Rescaling-Invariant Lipschitz Bound Based on Path-Metrics for Modern ReLU Network Parameterizations}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/45188}, } @inproceedings{icml2025_network_48457, title = {{Network Sparsity Unlocks the Scaling Potential of Deep Reinforcement Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44160}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_slidesparse_50862, title = {{SlideSparse: Fast and Flexible (2N-2):2N Structured Sparsity}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=GQ17DjsBcq}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_partial_54109, title = {{Partial Fusion of Neural Networks: Efficient Tradeoffs Between Ensembles and Weight Aggregation}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=lvRLG6C0zZ}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_sparse_71945, title = {{Sparse maximal update parameterization: A holistic approach to sparse training dynamics}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95363}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_navigating_72143, title = {{Navigating Extremes: Dynamic Sparsity in Large Output Spaces}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95193}, }