Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Sparsity Masking Methods For Neural Network Training' Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc

MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202417069164 A) filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, U.S.A., on Sept. 12, 2024, for 'sparsity masking methods for neural network training.'

Inventor(s) include Golub, Maximilian Taylor; Darvish Rouhani, Bita; Chung, Eric S; and Burger, Douglas Christopher.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method is presented for training a neural network. For a weight matrix having integer dimensions M1 in a first dimension and an integer dimension M2 in a second dimension, a first balanced sparsity mask is generated that is an...