US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Four-bit training for machine learning" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,841, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Four-bit training for machine learning" was invented by Xiao Sun (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Ankur Agrawal (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Kailash Gopalakrishnan (New York), Naigang Wang (Ossining, N.Y.), Chia-Yu Chen (White Plains, N.Y.) and Jiamin Ni (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a floating-point gradient register; an integer register; a memory bank; and an array of processing units. Each of the units includes a plurality of binary shifters having an integer input configured to obtain corresponding bits of a 4...