ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,394, issued on March 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Scheduling neural network processing" was invented by Dong Hyuk Woo (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a batch of neural network inputs to be processed using a neural network on a hardware circuit. The neural network has multiple layers arranged in a directed graph and each layer has a respective set of parameters. The method includes determining a partitioning of the neural network layers into a sequence of superlayers. Each superlayer is a partition of the directed graph that includes one or ...