ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,142, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Sparsity-aware compute-in-memory" was invented by Ren Li (San Diego), Ankit Srivastava (San Diego), Seyed Arash Mirhaj (Poway, Calif.) and Sameer Wadhwa (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing machine learning computations in a compute in memory (CIM) array comprising a plurality of bit cells, including: determining that a sparsity of input data to a machine learning model exceeds an input data sparsity threshold; disabling one or more bit cells in the CIM array based on the sparsity of the...