US Patent Issued to MONTAGE TECHNOLOGY on May 12 for "Method and device for compressing neural network" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,130, issued on May 12, 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 J operation layers; compressing a jth operation layer with Kj compression ratios to generate Kj operation branches; obtaining Kj weighting factors; replacing the jth operation layer with the Kj operation branches weighted by the Kj weighting factors to generate a replacement neural network; performing forw...