US Patent Issued to XILINX on June 2 for "Instruction pruning for neural networks" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,914, issued on June 2, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Instruction pruning for neural networks" was invented by Alireza Khodamoradi (Lafayette, Colo.) and Kristof Denolf (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In pruning weights from a neural network (NN), a design tool selects a dt-ds pair from a plurality of dt-ds pairs supported by a target device. Each dt-ds pair specifies a data type, dt, and an associated circuit structure, ds, that is configurable to compute dxs operations in parallel on a set of input activations and a matrix of weights of the data type, d is a number of rows in a sub-matrix of the mat...