ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,431, issued on June 23, was assigned to SISVEL TECHNOLOGY S.R.L. (None, Italy) and INSTITUT MINES TELECOM (Paris).
"Method and apparatus for pruning neural networks" was invented by Enzo Tartaglione (Nardo', Italy), Marco Grangetto (Pinerolo, Italy), Francesco Odierna (Sarno, Italy), Andrea Bragagnolo (Robassomero, Italy) and Attilio Fiandrotti (Turin, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for pruning a neural network comprising a plurality of neurons, said method comprising: an initialization phase, wherein input information is fetched comprising at least parameters ({wni,bni}) related to sai...