US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 3 for "Sparse convolutional neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,946, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Sparse convolutional neural network" was invented by Chen Zhang (Beijing) and Yunxin Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations of the subject matter as described herein relate to a sparse convolutional neural network. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method comprises: quantizing an input feature map to obtain a quantized input feature map; determining, based on the quantized input feature map, a sparsity mask for an output feature map through a quantized version of a convolutional neural network, the ...