US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 21 for "Pruning neural networks that include element-wise operations" (American, Finnish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,485, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pruning neural networks that include element-wise operations" was invented by Varun Praveen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anil Ubale (Cupertino, Calif.), Parthasarathy Sriram (Los Altos, Calif.), Greg Heinrich (Nice, France) and Tayfun Gurel (Vantaa, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Input layers of an element-wise operation in a neural network can be pruned such that the shape (e.g., the height, the width, and the depth) of the pruned layers matches. A pruning engine identifies all of the input layers into the element-wise operation. For each set of correspon...