Here is a relevant paper, which was the coolest thing I saw at this past NeurIPS: https://weightagnostic.github.io/ https://weightagnostic.github.io/ It is bas

Here is a relevant paper, which was the coolest thing I saw at this past NeurIPS: https://weightagnostic.github.io/ https://weightagnostic.github.io/ It is based on NEAT (as other commenters mentioned) and also ties in some discussion of the Lottery Ticket Hypothesis as you mentioned.