US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 7 for "Accelerating neural networks with one shot skip layer pruning" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,200, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Accelerating neural networks with one shot skip layer pruning" was invented by Arun Coimbatore Ramachandran (Bangalore, India), Chandra Kumar Ramasamy (Bangalore, India), Prakash Sathyanath Raghavendra (Bangalore, India) and Keerthan Subraya Shagrithaya (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for pruning a convolutional neural network (CNN). A subset of layers of the CNN is chosen, and for each layer of the subset of layers, how salient each filter in the layer is to an output of the CNN is determined, a su...