Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for System And Method For Predicting Neuron Importance In Large Language Models Using Stratified Activation-Patching Labels And Surrogate Regression For Efficient Model Pruning

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641098400 A) filed by Easwari Engineering College; and Srm Institute Of Science And Technology,ramapuram Campus on August 14, 2026, for System And Method For Predicting Neuron Importance In Large Language Models Using Stratified Activation-Patching Labels And Surrogate Regression For Efficient Model Pruning.

Inventors include Manish Varma D; Nelash U; and Dr. G. Jeyaram.

The application for the patent was published on August 21, 2026, under issue no. 34/2026.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for predicting neuron importance in a trained neural language model and pruning the said model. A feature ...