NVIDIA NIPS paper doing just that for NN. http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5784-learning-both-weights-and-connections-for-efficient-neural-network.pdf http://papers

NVIDIA NIPS paper doing just that for NN. http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5784-learning-both-weights-and-connections-for-efficient-neural-network.pdf http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5784-learning-both-weights-and-c... Not sure if it tells us more about why the network works, but they sure as heck get rid of a lot of connections.