ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,571, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Increasing sparcity in data sets" was invented by Jeffrey Michael Pool (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Chong Yu (Shanghai) and Paulius Micikevicius (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to transform data sets, such as matrices representing layers of neural networks, to increase sparsity and/or other characteristics of said data sets to improve performance in computations, such as neural network computations. In at least one embodiment, one or more subsets of data in one or more sets of data are rearranged as part of a ...