Title: Leveraging sparsity in deep neural networks for training efficiency, interpretability and generalization

Committee1. Dr. Constantine Dovrolis, Professor, Computer Science, Georgia Tech  (Advisor)2. Dr. Ling Liu, Professor, Computer Science, Georgia Tech3. Dr. Zsolt Kira, Associate Professor, Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech4. Dr. Yingyan (Celine) Lin, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Georgia Tech5. Dr. Loizos Michael, Associate Professor, Open University of Cyprus