US Patent Issued to MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY on July 21 for "Method and device for compressing neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,426, issued on July 21, was assigned to MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Method and device for compressing neural network" was invented by Zhen Dong (Shanghai), Yuanfei Nie (Shanghai) and Huan Feng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for compressing a neural network includes: obtaining a neural network including a plurality of parameters to be compressed; dividing the parameters into J blocks; compressing a jth block with Kj compression ratios to generate Kj operation branches; obtaining Kj weighting factors; replacing the jth block with the Kj operation branches weighted by the Kj weighting factors to generate ...