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When 90% Less is More: Sturgeon's Law in AI

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There is something profound about Sturgeon’s law. It not only applies to research papers, books, videos etc but also things like Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, model pruning etc. Pruning ~90% of the parameters in a model have little impact on performance.

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