Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for System And Method For Pruning Neural Networks Using A Fermi-Dirac Gating Layer

MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641109316 A) filed by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham on September 11, 2026, for System And Method For Pruning Neural Networks Using A Fermi-Dirac Gating Layer.

Inventors include Veerappan, Ravikumar Pandi; Dev, Raunak; Abraham, Reba Susan; Biju, Devaprabha S; and Sankar, Mydhily.

The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.

Abstract: A system (100) and a method (400) for differentiable pruning of a neural network are disclosed. The system (100) receives a neural network including interconnected layers having trainable weights and associates each trainable weight with a generalized many-body Fermi-Dirac...