ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,349, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Compression and decompression of weight values" was invented by Derek David Whiteman (Lund, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of compressing a set of weight values is provided in which an uncompressed set of weight values is obtained, which uncompressed set of weight values includes a plurality of weight values associated with a neural network. A frequently occurring value is identified among the plurality of weight values within the set of weight values and each occurrence of the frequently occurring weight value is replaced within the set of ...