ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,249, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Secure, accurate and fast neural network inference by replacing at least one non-linear activation channel" was invented by Qian Lou (Mountain View, Calif.), Yilin Shen (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hongxia Jin (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a server device is provided. The method of a server device includes retrieving a prediction input and a prediction setting, replacing at least one non-linear activation channel in a neural network with at least one replacement channel based on the received prediction setti...