US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Apparatus and a method for neural network compression" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,609, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus and a method for neural network compression" was invented by Caglar Aytekin (Tampere, Finland) and Francesco Cricri (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus comprising means for training a neural network, wherein the training comprises applying a loss function configured to increase sparsity of a weight tensor of the neural network and to cause a plurality of non-zero elements of the weight tensor to be substantially equal to each other; and means for entropy coding the weight tensor to obtain a compress...