US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 21 for "Jointly pruning and quantizing deep neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,615, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Jointly pruning and quantizing deep neural networks" was invented by Georgios Georgiadis (Porter Ranch, Calif.) and Weiran Deng (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method generate a neural network that includes at least one layer having weights and output feature maps that have been jointly pruned and quantized. The weights of the layer are pruned using an analytic threshold function. Each weight remaining after pruning is quantized based on a weighted average of a quantization and dequantization of the weight for ...