US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 24 for "Data shuffle optimization" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,961, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data shuffle optimization" was invented by Hongbin Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sheng Xu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qingrui Liu (Burlingame, Calif.) and Pushkar Ratnalikar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optimization algorithm is disclosed to reduce the number of data shuffle operators in a data flow graph representing a neural network model for a neural network. The optimization algorithm can identify single-entry single-exit (SESE) regions in the data flow graph and select the SESE regions that comprise only the...