US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 29 for "Bayesian bits joint mixed-precision quantization and structured pruning using decomposed quantization and Bayesian gates" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,697, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bayesian bits joint mixed-precision quantization and structured pruning using decomposed quantization and Bayesian gates" was invented by Marinus Willem Van Baalen (Amsterdam), Christos Louizos (Amsterdam), Markus Nagel (Amsterdam), Tijmen Pieter Frederik Blankevoort (Amsterdam) and Rana Ali Amjad (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include methods and devices for joint mixed-precision quantization and structured pruning. Embodiments may include determining whether a plurality of gates of quantization and pruning gates are selected for combi...