US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 9 for "Specialized, data-free model quantization" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,041, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Specialized, data-free model quantization" was invented by Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas), Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Foster City, Calif.) and Hugo Latapie (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a device obtains a base machine learning model trained to label input data using a plurality of classes. The device receives a deployment task from a user interface indicative of a subset of one or more of the plurality of classes to be identified by a new model for deployment. The device selects a quantization level based on a diff...