US Patent Issued to Intel Overseas Funding on July 21 for "Accelerated sparse neural network training using transposable pruning masks" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,421, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Overseas Funding Corp. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Accelerated sparse neural network training using transposable pruning masks" was invented by Itay Hubara (Jerusalem), Chen Koren (Hadera, Israel), Brian Chmiel (Nesher, Israel), Moshe Island (Tel Mond, Israel) and Ron Banner (Yoqneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a trained deep neural network (DNN) having multiple layers represented by respective weight matrices. The DNN is pruned by, for at least one layer represented by a respective weight matrix including multiple weights, converting the weight matrix...