US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Feb. 24 for "Neural network pruning with cyclical sparsity" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,567, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Neural network pruning with cyclical sparsity" was invented by Suraj Srinivas (Amsterdam), Tijmen Pieter Frederik Blankevoort (Amsterdam), Andrey Kuzmin (Hilversum, Netherlands), Markus Nagel (Amsterdam), Marinus Willem Van Baalen (Amsterdam) and Andrii Skliar (Diemen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods and devices for neural network pruning. Embodiments may include receiving as an input a weight tensor for a neural network, increasing a level of sparsity of the weight tensor generating a sparse weight tensor, updating the ...