US Patent Issued to Google on June 10 for "Convolutional neural networks with soft kernel selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,180, issued on June 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Convolutional neural networks with soft kernel selection" was invented by Brandon Chauloon Yang (Saratoga, Calif.), Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jiquan Ngiam (Mountain View, Calif.) and Gabriel Mintzer Bender (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using neural networks that include one or more conditional convolutional layers. A conditional convolutional layer has a plurality of kernels and determines a respective input-depe...