ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,566, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Neural network layer folding" was invented by Amir Ben-dror (Tel Aviv, Israel), Niv Zehngut (Tel Aviv, Israel), Evgeny Artyomov (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Ran Vitek (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Sapir Kaplan (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes neural network reduction techniques for decreasing the number of neurons or layers in a neural network. Embodiments of the method, apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system are configured to receive a trained neural network and replace certain non-l...