US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 2 for "Processing method and accelerating device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,246, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Pudong New Area, China).

"Processing method and accelerating device" was invented by Zidong Du (Pudong New Area, China), Xuda Zhou (Pudong New Area, China), Shaoli Liu (Pudong New Area, China) and Tianshi Chen (Pudong New Area, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a processing device including: a coarse-grained pruning unit configured to perform coarse-grained pruning on a weight of a neural network to obtain a pruned weight, an operation unit configured to train the neural network according to the pruned weight. ...