US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 23 for "Method and apparatus for keeping statistical inference accuracy with 8-bit Winograd convolution" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,561, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for keeping statistical inference accuracy with 8-bit Winograd convolution" was invented by Jiong Gong (Shanghai), Haihao Shen (Shanghai), Xiao Dong Lin (Shanghai) and Xiaoli Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for keeping statistical inference accuracy with 8-bit winograd convolution. A calibration dataset and a pretrained CNN comprising 32-bit floating point weight values may be sampled to generate an input activation tensor and a weight tensor. A transformed input activation tensor may be generated by ...