ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,103, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Variable quantization for neural networks" was invented by Chirag Sureshbhai Patel (San Diego), Tijmen Pieter Frederik Blankevoort (Amsterdam), Jonathan Dewitt Wolfe (Austin, Texas) and Erich Plondke (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for an artificial neural network includes receiving an input. A quantization threshold is determined based on the input, or a characteristic or type of the input. Neural network values, such as weights or activations, of one or more layers of the artificial neural network are quantized according to the quantization t...