ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,877, issued on March 11, was assigned to Movidius Ltd. (Schiphol-Rijk, Netherlands).
"Hybrid neural network pruning" was invented by Xiaofan Xu (Dublin), Mi Sun Park (San Jose, Calif.) and Cormac M. Brick (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pruned version of a neural network is generated by determining pruned versions of each a plurality of layers of the network. The pruned version of each layer is determined by sorting a set of channels of the layer based on respective weight values of each channel in the set. A percentage of the set of channels are pruned based on the sorting to form a thinned version of the layer. Acc...