ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,923, issued on March 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Desparsified convolution for sparse activations" was invented by Jamie Menjay Lin (San Diego), Jian Shen (San Diego) and Fatih Murat Porikli (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for desparsified convolution. An activation tensor is received, and a convolution output is generated for the activation tensor, comprising: selecting a subset of weight elements, corresponding to a set of non-zero elements in the activation tensor, from a weight tensor, and multiplying the set of non-zero elements and the se...