Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?
neural networksoverparameterizationloss landscapeslocal minima
Author: rbanffy
Date: 6/24/2026
Article Summary:
Researchers examine the success of overparameterized neural networks and propose an alternative explanation to the "lottery ticket" hypothesis, suggesting that increasing width makes it easier to escape bad local minima in loss landscapes.