person
Jonathan Frankle
Databricks Chief AI Scientist; Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
Chief AI Scientist at Databricks; lead author of the 'Lottery Ticket Hypothesis' (2018) on neural network pruning. Previously co-founded MosaicML, acquired by Databricks in 2023.
current Chief AI Scientist, Databricks
past Co-founder, Chief Scientist, MosaicML
Strategy positions
Alignment firstmixed
Solve technical alignment before capability thresholds closeArgues understanding what makes models efficiently trainable is part of understanding what they are; safety conversations need this technical grounding.
“A randomly-initialized, dense neural network contains a subnetwork that is initialized such that, when trained in isolation, it can match the test accuracy of the original network.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.