US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on April 7 for "Constrained masking for sparsification in machine learning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,916, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Constrained masking for sparsification in machine learning" was invented by Debasmit Das (San Diego) and Jamie Menjay Lin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for feature masking. A feature tensor is accessed in a neural network, and a feature mask is generated by processing the feature tensor using a masking subnetwork, where the masking subnetwork was trained based at least in part on a polarization constraint and an activation constraint to generate feature masks. A masked feature tens...