New paper links lottery ticket hypothesis to superpolynomial scaling laws, sparking continual learning hopes
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-23
teortaxesTex quotes a StatMLPapers-shared paper, 'A universal compression theory: Lottery ticket hypothesis and superpolynomial scaling laws.' He suspects it looks like another overpromising academic dud at first glance, but if it holds up, it could connect to PEFT/adapters/prompt tuning and ultimately practical continual learning — pointing to a concrete applied path for a theoretical result.
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