US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 29 for "Transfer learning with basis scaling and pruning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,160, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Transfer learning with basis scaling and pruning" was invented by Chun Lok Wong (San Jose, Calif.), Mehdi Moradi (San Jose, Calif.) and Satyananda Kashyap (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for performing transfer learning with basis scaling and pruning. One method includes obtaining a pre-trained deep convolutional neural network (DCNN), decomposing each weight matrix of the DCNN, and decomposing each convolutional layer by applying the respective decomposed weight matrix to the convolution layer to form a...