ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,877, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Neural network method and apparatus" was invented by Minkyoung Cho (Incheon, South Korea), Wonjo Lee (Uiwang-si, South Korea) and Seungwon Lee (Ansan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for the pruning of a neural network is provided. The method sets a weight threshold value based on a weight distribution of layers included in a neural network, predicts a change of inference accuracy of a neural network by pruning of each layer based on the weight threshold value, determines a current subject layer to be pruned...