US Patent Issued to Adobe on Sept. 16 for "Efficient mixed-precision search for quantizers in artificial neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,389, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Efficient mixed-precision search for quantizers in artificial neural networks" was invented by Zichuan Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Kun Wan (San Jose, Calif.) and Xin Lu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing efficient mixed-precision search for an artificial neural network (ANN) includes training the ANN by sampling selected candidate quantizers of a bank of candidate quantizer and updating network parameters for a next iteration based on outputs of layers of the ANN. The outputs are computed by processing quantized data with opera...