US Patent Issued to Arm on Oct. 7 for "Activation compression method for deep learning acceleration" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,199, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Activation compression method for deep learning acceleration" was invented by Zhi-Gang Liu (Westford, Mass.) and Matthew Mattina (Boylston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for multiplying matrices, and method for training a convolutional neural network (CNN), are provided. The system includes a processor and a matrix multiply accelerator (MMA). The processor is configured to generate, based on an input tensor, a number of basic block matrices, each basic block matrix including a number of elements; for each basic block matrix: prune, based on...