US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Weight quantization in neural networks" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,986, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SHANGHAI CAMBRICON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Pudong New Area, China).

"Weight quantization in neural networks" was invented by Zai Wang (Pudong New Area, China), Xuda Zhou (Pudong New Area, China), Zidong Du (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. The...