US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies, K&L Gates on March 17 for "Decomposition of weight tensors for structural sparsity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,430, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. and K&L Gates LLP.

"Decomposition of weight tensors for structural sparsity" was invented by Eric A. Sather (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Steven L. Teig (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for improving structural sparsity of a machine-trained (MT) network. The method receives a network having multiple layers. Each layer of a set of the layers includes multiple filters of weight values. The method replaces the filters of a particular layer of the network with (i) a first set of filters of weight values, (ii) a set of scale va...