US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 14 for "Variance aware techniques to prune neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,240, issued on July 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Variance aware techniques to prune neural networks" was invented by Shuang Gao (Newark, Calif.), Xin Liu (Pleasanton, Calif.) and John Zedlewski (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to use weight information corresponding to a neural network, wherein weight information of at least a first one or more layers of the neural network is modified to compensate for deactivating one or more second layers of the neural network. The neural network may be a residual neural network."

The patent was filed on May 1, 2019, under Application No...