US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on March 17 for "Parameterized activation functions to adjust model linearity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,425, issued on March 17, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Parameterized activation functions to adjust model linearity" was invented by Jamie Menjay Lin (San Diego), Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego) and Mustafa Keskin (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for parameterized activation functions. Input data is processed with at least one layer of the neural network model comprising a parameterized activation function, and at least one trainable parameter of the parameterized activation function is updated based at least in part on output from the at least one l...