US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for quantizing parameters of neural network" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,940, issued on March 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for quantizing parameters of neural network" was invented by Gunhee Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seungwon Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of quantizing parameters of a neural network includes acquiring a parameter of a floating-point format used in a process of inferring by the neural network, quantizing, based on statistics of a weight included in the parameter, the weight into a fixed-point format, determining, based on statistics of an activation of one or more layers configuring...