US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on July 21 for "Quantization-aware training with numerical overflow avoidance for neural networks" (Canadian, Indian, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,418, issued on July 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Quantization-aware training with numerical overflow avoidance for neural networks" was invented by Ian Charles Colbert (San Diego), Mehdi Saeedi (Markham, Canada), Arun Coimbatore Ramachandran (Whitefield, India), Chandra Kumar Ramasamy (Whitefield, India), Gabor Sines (Markham, Canada), Prakash Sathyanath Raghavendra (Whitefield, India) and Alessandro Pappalardo (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for efficiently creating less computationally intensive nodes for a neural net...