US Patent Issued to Alibaba (China) on July 28 for "Hardware acceleration framework for graph neural network quantization" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,278, issued on July 28, was assigned to Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Hardware acceleration framework for graph neural network quantization" was invented by Linyong Huang (Hangzhou, China), Zhe Zhang (Beijing), Shuangchen Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes an hardware and a software design for quantization in GNN computation. An exemplary method may include: receiving a graph comprising a plurality of nodes respectively represented by a plurality of feature vectors; segmenting the plurality of feature vectors into a plurality of sub-ve...