US Patent Issued to XILINX on Aug. 11 for "Pruning filters from convolutional neural networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,486, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Pruning filters from convolutional neural networks" was invented by Sean Settle (San Jose, Calif.) and Paolo D'Alberto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Levels of cross-correlation between pairs of original filters in the layers of a convolutional neural network (CNN) are determined and used in pruning the filters. The pruning includes, for one or more pairs of the pairs of original filters having a level of cross-correlation that satisfies a pruning threshold, determining a scale factor between first and second filters of the one or more pairs, a...