US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 16 for "Simulated low bit-width quantization using bit shifted neural network parameters" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,345, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Simulated low bit-width quantization using bit shifted neural network parameters" was invented by Marinus Willem Van Baalen (Amsterdam), Brian Kahne (Austin, Texas), Eric Wayne Mahurin (Austin, Texas), Tijmen Pieter Frederik Blankevoort (Amsterdam), Andrey Kuzmin (Amsterdam), Andrii Skliar (Diemen, Netherlands) and Markus Nagel (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes bit shifting a binary representation of a neural network parameter. The neural network parameter has fewer bits, b, than a number of hardware bits, B, supported ...