US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Feature-map throughput during training process" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,544, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Feature-map throughput during training process" was invented by Kun Xu (Austin, Texas) and Ron Diamant (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to improve the memory throughput for storing and reading intermediate data computed by layers of a neural network during a training process. A compression operation can be performed by removing the zeros from the intermediate data and storing locations of the zeros before storing the intermediate data in the memory for a forward pass of the training process. The compressed ...